You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

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

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.