Heights Quotes

We must not fear mistakes,

for they are the steps to knowledge.

I installed a skylight in my apartment…

the people who live above me are furious.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Wars are,

of course,

as a rule to be avoided,

but they are far better,

than certain kinds of peace.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

without any other reason but because they are not already common.

One moment can change a day,

one day can change a life,

and one life can change the world.

Laughter is timeless,

imagination has no age,

dreams are forever.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

The whole secret of

a successful life is

to find out what is

one's destiny to do,

and then do it.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum

which God seeks to fill...

With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need

and the other in the hand of Christ,

He could get across the vacuum.

Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

The only man who never makes a mistake

is the man who never does anything.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

Your goodness must have some edge to it,

else it is none.

Don’t wait for someone else to take action;

report the truth,

even when it’s difficult.

Even people who believe they deserve,

to be happy and have nice things often,

don't feel worthy once they have them.

No matter what people

tell you,

words and ideas can

change the world.

There is no distinctly American criminal class

except Congress.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,

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