“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.”

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Financial storm definitely passed.

Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.