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

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

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.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.