The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

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.

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

There is no better therapy than understanding.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.