Pary Quotes

Leadership requires courage to make

difficult decisions.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call

an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

It is more shameful to

distrust our friends than

to be deceived by them.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I get no respect.

The way my luck is running,

if I was a politician I would be honest.

Science without religion is lame,

religion without science is blind.

Never pick a fight with people

who buy ink by the barrel.

Creativity comes from vulnerability.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters

the location and number of instruments,

the geology of the area,

the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

If you’re going to be thinking,

you might as well think big.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

It’s not the load that breaks you down;

it’s the way you carry it.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Most people overestimate

what they can do in one year and underestimate

what they can do in ten years.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.

Opportunity is missed by most people

because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

We love life,

but life does not love us.