I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner

Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.

Take responsibility for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you. I'm not a victim. I grow from this and I learn.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Where there are no learned men, there even the ignorant are esteemed learned, as where there are no trees, there the lonely palm is esteemed a tree.