Heights Quotes

Find a place

Inside where there's joy,

And the joy will

Burn out the pain.

When I started counting my blessings,

my whole life turned around.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals,

they seem so absurd and impractical.

Yet I cling to them.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...

so other people would be also free.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

The object of oratory

alone in not truth,

but persuasion.

I could tell my parents hated me.

My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

When I do good I feel good,

when I do bad I feel bad,

and that's my religion.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major general.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

An escalator can never break:

it can only become stairs.

I don't give out participation trophies.

Existence precedes essence.

The sun will shine regardless of the clouds.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call

an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.

There are a number of women

who have brought about immense change in society.