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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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.

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

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