L.A. Paul Quotes

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I am at best on the C list for Pope.

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

One must love a poet on its own terms.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

What does America love more than one white male?

Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.