Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.