We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.