John Quotes
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.
Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.
I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.
You shouldn't ask why do you wear a hat? What you really should be asking is why are you not? How can a look be complete without a hat?
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.
My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.
When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.
I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.
I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.
We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
