"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."

"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."

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them."

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

"The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy."

"Your anger is a gift."