Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.