No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Do not do that which others can do as well.