Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

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

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

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.