John Quotes

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Ideas shape the course of history.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.