John Quotes

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

Creativity's about ownership.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Friends are the sunshine of life.