Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we'd help them achieve what is best for them. We'd also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This

There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.