It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

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

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.

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.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.