In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.