No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper … - Booker T. Washington

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life — that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I