Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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.

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.

Conversion isn't, after all, a moment: It's a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

You can't write drunk.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.