Vernon Howard Quotes

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it.

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees.

I'm not gonna go steal an airport car and go save someone. That's crazy. But I will do almost anything for any of my friends.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

I am not good at following rules, I am not good at following instructions, I am not good at driving slow.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.

Having a pet only brings more love into a home and it's the greatest thing I've ever experienced.

There are very few people who I can trust. I look at those people and say, Why do you keep coming back?

You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have and will never let him access - in large part because I'm trying to protect him, and one of the responsibilities of loving someone is protecting him or her, even if who you're protecting them from is yourself.