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

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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.)