Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.