DJ Paul Quotes

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Nature is the best instructor.

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.