Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.