You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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

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

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

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

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