L.A. Paul Quotes

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

I don't think investment is that hard. It's doing the simple things on a regular basis.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

I think conservatives should be confident in our beliefs and go push them everywhere we can and go to non-traditional communities. It's a no-brainer.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.