Pary Quotes

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary,

simply by doing them with the right people.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years.

Then we met.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself.

I don’t know why people think dreams are nonsense.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?

It is because we are not the person involved.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door

that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

We always overestimate the change

that will occur in the next two years

and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door

directly to what should be.

What I know is,

is that if you do work that you love,

and the work fulfills you,

the rest will come.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and

do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

Our lives are shaped by the choices

we make and the opportunities we take.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see

the miraculous in the common.

You don’t have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.