The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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.