At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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.

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.

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

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.

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