L.A. Paul Quotes

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

You should always be careful of what you say in parting.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).