Heights Quotes

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 time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Deep into that darkness peering,

long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting,

dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

It means,

people who are in high and responsible positions,

if they go against righteousness,

righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

We gon’ be alright.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me.

The other day she told me to put the garbage out.

I said to her I already did.

She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

I believe that every single event in life

happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.

Without hard work, Nothing grows but weeds.

Don’t follow the crowd,

let the crowd follow you.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

I've learned you are never too small to make a difference.

To succeed in your mission,

you must have single

minded

devotion to your goal.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

If you’re not worried about the future,

you’re not paying attention.

Older people sit down and ask,

What is it?

but the boy asks,

What can I do with it?

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.

I am the Way,

the Truth,

and the Life.

No one comes to

the Father except

through me.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,

and without it nothing great was ever achieved.