Pary Quotes

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question

than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

We always overestimate the change

that will occur in the next two years and underestimate

the change that will occur in the next ten.

Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It's not that I'm so smart,

it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Our future depends on what we do today,

not what we say we will do tomorrow.

The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it,

but what they become by it.

You win some,

you lose some,

but you always learn.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Well,

you don't get to do things that other children get to do,

having friends and slumber parties and buddies.

There were none of that for me.

I didn't have friends when I was little.

My brothers were my friends.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change.

I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

Journalism is what we need to inform and guide democracy.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Nothing new here,

except my marrying,

which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

You must take the compromise to win,

or else nothing.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow.

he told me to wear a brown tie.