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

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

Do not do that which others can do as well.