L.A. Paul Quotes

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.

Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

Leadership has a price.

Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I've never been on a diet and never will.

I will never, ever go on a carb-free diet.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.