If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

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.)

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.