An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

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

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

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

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.