No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

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.

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