I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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.

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