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.

My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

Treat us like men, and there is no danger but we will all live in peace and happiness together. For we are not like you, hard hearted, unmerciful, and unforgiving. What a happy country this will be, if the whites will listen.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

To fill the hour,-that is happiness.