In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

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 have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.