Pary Quotes

The way I decided to leave Wall Street

was a regret minimization framework.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have

courage to lose sight of the shore.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show

compassion and the will to help others.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

When you sit on a red

hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

That's relativity.

The more you learn,

the more you earn.

Hope lies in dreams in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

People with great gifts are easy to find,

but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

A friend may well be reckoned

the masterpiece of nature.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for

honesty and truth and compassion

against injustice and lying and greed.

The love that comes

from friendship is

the underlying facet

of a happy life.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

No matter what people

tell you,

words and ideas can

change the world.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.