You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.