Heights Quotes

A friend is one

who knows you

and loves you

just the same.

English is necessary

as at present original works of science are in English.

I believe that in two decades times

original works of science will start coming out in our languages.

Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

You yourself,

as much as anybody in the entire universe,

deserve your love and affection.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

While children are struggling to be unique,

the world around them is trying all means to make them

look like everybody else.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

As far as I'm concerned,

I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

Real change never occurs from the top down;

it always occurs from the bottom up.

I just want to be remembered as someone

who helped push culture forward.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

Happy New Year to everyone except the person who stole my bike.

We’re going to win so much,

you may even get tired of winning.

Over the years,

I've interviewed thousands of people,

most of them women,

and I would say that the root of every dysfunction,

I've ever encountered every problem,

has been some sense of a lacking of self,

value or of self,

worth.

Laughter is the only cure for grief.

Vulnerability is where creativity thrives.

Be honest in your expression,

and you’ll reach someone’s soul.