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.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

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.

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.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.