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

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

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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.

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