No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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

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.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

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.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.