There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.