Heights Quotes

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

If you always put limits on everything you do,

physical or anything else,

it will spread into your work and into your life.

The love that comes

from friendship is

the underlying facet

of a happy life.

Nobody knows the system better than me.

I've helped many, many, many children,

thousands of children,

cancer kids,

leukemia kids.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Vulnerability is the core of art.

The people know their rights,

and they are never slow to assert

and maintain them when they are invaded.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,

and I think a great deal of that grew out of

the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal;

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Be brave.

Take risks.

Nothing can substitute experience.

Delight in meditation and solitude.

Never regret what you don't write.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Peace if possible,

truth at all costs.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe,

it is both possible and, more importantly,

it becomes powerful to come together in

common purpose and common effort.

We are what we believe we are.

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.