If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

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.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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.