Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient,… - Booker T. Washington

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands. Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.