The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.