If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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