I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.“” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

It is discouraging to find a woman who knows much about theoretical chemistry, and who cannot properly wash and iron a shirt.

There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

It is pretty hard, however, to help a young man who has started wrong. Once he gets the idea that – because he has crammed his head full with mere book knowledge – the world owes him a living, it is hard for him to change.

One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those.