B.J. Penn Quotes

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Let us see what love can do.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

I'm not a breakfast eater.