Booker T. Washington

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.