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.

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.

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness

Do not deny the truth.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.