A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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.

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.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.