“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

tall oaks from little acorns grow.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced

That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

If you spend time with your loved ones, you get the energy to do your job better.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.