L.A. Paul Quotes
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.
If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.
Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
