Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.