Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.