J. A. Baker Quotes

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

Reject hatred without hating.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

The older I get, the older old is.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

I've never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.

Obedience out of love is joy.

All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

No power can withstand divine Love.

Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?

Strong people do not need strong leaders.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.