Pary Quotes

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Wide diversification is only required

when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Predicting rain doesn’t count.

Building arks does.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes;

they are part of growth.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,

for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the

wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Plainly,

the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Independence is happiness.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Never complain

and

Never explain

Do your work with your whole heart,

and you will succeed

there's so little competition

Elbert Hubbard

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

Somebody called me a homophobe.

I'm not homophobic.

Start by doing what’s necessary;

then do what’s possible;

and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Don’t Panic.

Life is short,

but it’s wide.

I wish to preach,

not the doctrine of ignoble ease,

but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I want winners.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man.

The biography of the man himself cannot be written.