Do not do that which others can do as well.

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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

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.

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.

Character is power.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.