Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

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.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.