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

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

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

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come