Pary Quotes

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world

until we make peace with ourselves.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I met the surgeon general

he offered me a cigarette.

Being the richest man in the cemetery

doesn't matter to me.

Going to bed at night saying

we've done something wonderful,

that's what matters to me.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices.

First we make our choices.

Then our choices make us.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains

about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics:

freedom for slave owners.

We are going to build a wall.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I cannot possibly believe that

I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,

inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,

denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Our best thoughts come from others.

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

When you judge another,

you do not define them,

you define yourself.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

I want to go when I want.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.

I have done my share;

it is time to go.

I will do it elegantly.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence.

Everything that surrounds us

everything that exists

proves that there are infinite laws behind it.

There can be no denying this fact.

It is mathematical in its precision.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.