Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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.

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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