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

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

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

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.