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

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.