John Quotes

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

Good government has to mean less government.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

You should have died when I killed you.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

The object of war is to survive it.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

I realized that I spent more time thinking about my problem clients than my great clients. I had to stop feeding the drama of the problem clients-and other problems in my life.

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

If it is important do it everyday

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

You should never take more than you give

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.