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

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

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

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

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.