John Quotes

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

If you lose self-control everything will fall.

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

...I will not be silent any longer.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I love you. I honestly love you.

As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.