I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mi… - Booker T. Washington

I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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