Heights Quotes

Failure will never overtake me

if my determination to succeed is strong enough

Og Mandino

No religion has mandated killing others

as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

When humor goes,

there goes civilization.

Obedience of the law is demanded;

not asked as a favor.

Opportunities are made,

not given.

D Alphabet and Letter in Red

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

After silence, that which comes

nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.

The highest art is always the most religious,

and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

What you are will show in what you do.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun,

the moon, and the truth.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.

We are never tired,

so long as we can see far enough.

Some day following the example,

of the United States of America,

there will be a United States of Europe.

Nobody knows the system better than me.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress;

therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken

until after they shall have deliberated

upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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.