Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.