L.A. Paul Quotes

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

Fashion is not art. Never.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

It is what a woman, leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

There was earth inside them, and they dug.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

As for me, I cannot understand how it is possible not to be always thinking of God.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

Life I love you, all is groovy.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Every man is the author of his own life.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.