Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to t….

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all..

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-a….

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new ….

Do not do that which others can do as well..

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking ….

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up..

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 expla….

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else..

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there sla….

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity..

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….

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than ….

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of lab….

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough..

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances..

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went ….

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

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

Success always leaves footprints..

Character, not circumstances, makes the man..