Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

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

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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.

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

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.