B.J. Penn Quotes

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

History is all explained by geography.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

You're going to fall, but you got to stand.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

Never despise what you don't understand.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

Everyday is an atheist holiday.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.