The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.