Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.