One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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.

For success we need to focus with a converging thought process.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.