Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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.

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.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

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.