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.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

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

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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.