John Quotes

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

Because I was flat out wrong I'm on my knees Begging that you Will forgive me, please

This goodbye will only seem Like an eternal pain If I fail to merely miss you Until we meet again As we assuredly will I've made my mind up

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

Cause even grown men need understanding.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

Make today your master piece.

Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.