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.

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

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

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

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.