If we don't know who we are, we'll never know how we ought to live.

It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out.

I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'.

You have to be someone.

You can't run away from yourself !!

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.