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.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.