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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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.

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

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

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

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.