Booker T. Washington

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. ”

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

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

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ”

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ”

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. ”