Heights Quotes

The basis of our political system is the right of

the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Success is a lousy teacher.

It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r',

except at the beginning of a word.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally,

it comes from what you do consistently.

Don’t compromise your principles for popularity.

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

If the people remember

me as a good teacher,

that will be the

biggest honour for me.

Technology is nothing.

What's important is that you have a faith in people,

that they're basically good and smart.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left in nature,

sunshine,

freedom,

in yourself;

these can all help you.

Raise your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

Fashion is a weapon.

What I know is,

is that if you do work that you love,

and the work fulfills you,

the rest will come.

Building capacity dissolves differences.

It irons out inequalities.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature

opposition to it is his love of justice.

These principles are an eternal antagonism;

and when brought into collision so fiercely,

as slavery extension brings them,

shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Nothing ever comes to one

that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

Nations consist of people.

And with their effort,

a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.