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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Hope is holding on to the promises of God.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.