In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

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

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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.