The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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