L.A. Paul Quotes

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Few great men could pass personnel.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

I believe in it because it is impossible.

The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.