Pary Quotes

We know what we are,

but know not what we may be.

S Alphabet and Letter in Red

I don’t go by the rule book;

I lead from the heart.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

All that I am,

or ever hope to be,

I owe to my mother.

For the last 33 years,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself: If today were the last day of my life,

would I want to do what I am about to do today?

I find my greatest pleasure,

and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously

what the gods made for fun.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,

it was done.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

As far as I'm concerned,

I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Yesterday is not ours to recover,

but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Without a struggle,

there can be no progress.

Tell me,

why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths,

our achievements?

We are such a great nation.

We have so many amazing success stories

but we refuse to acknowledge them.

Why?

Education must not simply teach work

it must teach life.

are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you

that you can’t be exactly who you are.