Heights Quotes

The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think the things you regret most in life are

the things you didn't do.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Every man supposes himself

not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Let me say,

at the risk of seeming ridiculous,

that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.

The more I work,

the more I realize how little I know.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,

and I did.

I said I didn't know.

We cannot solve our problems

with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.

The only way to enjoy life is through music.

Be thine own palace,

or the world's thy jail

John Donne

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

There are lies,

damned lies and statistics.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.

I consider the world,

this Earth,

to be like a school,

and our life the classrooms.

The ones who are crazy enough to think

they can change the world are the ones who do.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.

Capital is only the fruit of labor,

and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Labor is the superior of capital,

and deserves much the higher consideration.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Beauty without expression is boring.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country

is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.