Heights Quotes

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man.

The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I don’t believe in regrets,

I believe in experiences.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

I was in high school when

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

I thank God for my failures

Maybe not at the time but

after some reflection.

I never feel like a failure

just because something

I tried has failed.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to

make anything out of my early life.

If people wanted you to do well,

they would’ve supported you.

The only thing I learned in school

that I use today is how to write a check.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

I always try to stay grounded and know who I am.

The sky is falling,

but you gotta keep rising.

Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

An investor should act as though

he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

Stuff your eyes with wonder,

live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.

The struggle of my life created empathy

I could relate to pain,

being abandoned,

having people not love me.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

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

Revolutionaries should be guided by morality.