Heights Quotes

If there should prove to be one real,

living Free State Democrat in Kansas,

I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff

and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of

that soon to be extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

Baseball is like a poker game.

Nobody wants to quit when he's losing;

nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,

and to serve them one's self?

Life,

although it may only be an accumulation of anguish,

is dear to me,

and I will defend it.

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years,

don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Christ is risen, and life is renewed.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

When at last we are sure,

You've been properly pilled,

Then a few paper forms,

Must be properly filled.

So that you and your heirs,

May be properly billed.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot,

but I always found them.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

I learned many great lessons from my failures,

but the best was never giving up.

If you’re competitor focused,

you have to wait until

there is a competitor doing something.

Being customer focused allows you to

be more pioneering.

Children must be taught how to think,

not what to think.

Discipline is the soul of an army.

It makes small numbers formidable;

procures success to the weak,

and esteem to all.

We don't get a chance to do that many things,

and every one should be really excellent.