Heights Quotes

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

Take all the courses in your curriculum.

Do the research.

Ask questions.

Find someone doing what you are interested in!

Be curious!

Somehow,

not only for Christmas,

but all the year,

our hearts were light.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains

about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics:

freedom for slave owners.

My mother was my first country,

the first place I ever lived.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,

while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning,

but to teach life.

Everything is physics and math.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

The good thing about science is that it’s true

whether or not you believe in it.

Life is short,

but it’s wide.

My wife dresses to kill.

She cooks the same way.

Opportunities come infrequently.

When it rains gold,

put out the bucket.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

Management is about persuading people

to do things they do not want to do,

while leadership is about inspiring people

to do things they never thought they could do.

We say,

freedom is coming,

but we must be willing to fight for it.

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.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.