Heights Quotes

I find my greatest pleasure,

and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Presentation matters,

expression matters.

I am a firm believer in the people.

If given the truth,

they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.

The great point is to bring them the real facts.

A purpose of human life,

no matter who is controlling it,

is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835.

It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.

It will be the greatest disappointment of my life

if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.

The Almighty has said,

no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks;

they came in together, they must go out together.'

I’m a very stable genius.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

One of the most striking differences between a cat

and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

A man is exactly as big as the things that make him angry.

I am who I am;

your approval is not needed.

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.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

For every complex problem,

there is a solution that is clear,

simple, and wrong.

You don’t know the meaning of courage

until you’ve faced a firefight with your men.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is

the first necessity of progress.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.