L.A. Paul Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.

People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to commit to a regular nine-to-five.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

Who's to say who's an expert?

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.