John Quotes

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.