The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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.

Character, not circumstances, make the man.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.