Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.