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.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.