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

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

It is better to be an exception than to have expectations.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

For 244 years our democracy has worked and this is no exception.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

The world needs saints, and all of us, without exception, are called to holiness. We are not afraid!

We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.