Success always leaves footprints.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

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

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

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

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