John Quotes

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

Forever is composed of nows.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

Worship has a two-fold aspect...we lift Him up and exalt Him, and as a result are drawn into His presence where He speaks to us.

There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.

People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

All progress is experimental.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.