At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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 the things that are remote and uncommon.