Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

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

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.