Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

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.

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

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

My life is not just about the past.

I am a very superstitious person.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'