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

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

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

Success always leaves footprints.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.