Pary Quotes

The meeting of two personalities is like

the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

We make the future sustainable

when we invest in the poor,

not when we insist on their suffering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car;

but if he has a university education,

he may steal the whole railroad.

Creativity comes from vulnerability.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

Do not take life

too seriously.

You will never get

out of it alive.

stars are fire, stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The best executive is one who has sense

enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self

restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Autumn…the year’s last,

loveliest smile.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection,

we can catch excellence.

Frugality drives innovation,

just like other constraints do.

I can express all my views on the slavery question

by quotations from Henry Clay.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

No bird soars too high

if he soars with his own wings

The reason why men do not obey us,

is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Patience is a key element of success.