The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.