“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”

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

“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate 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 overcome while trying to succeed.”

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”