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.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.