John Quotes

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Failure's a natural part of life.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!

I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

To change your LIFE you need to change your PRIORITIES.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.