John Swihart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.

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