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.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

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

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.

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.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.