B.J. Penn Quotes

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

I really love to make movies.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Next to God, thy parents.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

What is man but his passion?

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.