Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Character is power.

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.