L.A. Paul Quotes

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

They've healed me to pieces.

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

But you just gotta understand that that's the way it is and keep on steppin'.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Another roof, another proof.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?