L.A. Paul Quotes

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day.

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.

I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

After awhile size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on 10k or 100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.