Heights Quotes

The world is a book,

and those who do not travel read only one page.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting;

it has been found difficult and left untried.

The best way out is always through.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

God is in the details.

Deep down,

the young are lonelier than the old.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Doubt is only removed by action.

If you’re not working,

then that’s where doubt comes in.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Hope is a good breakfast,

but it is a bad supper.

Don’t Panic.

A lot of people in our industry

haven't had very diverse experiences.

Men make history,

and not the other way around.

In periods where there is no leadership,

society stands still.

Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish,

you can stay in the shallow water.

But if you want to catch the big fish,

you’ve got to go deeper.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.