Booker T. Washington: “The average audience, I have come to believe, wants facts rather than generalities or sermonizing.”

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

It is such a rest and relief to get away from crowds of people, and handshaking, and travelling, to get home, even if it be for but a very brief while.

When the Englishman takes you into his heart and friendship, he binds you there as with cords of steel, and I do not believe that there are many other friendships that are so lasting or so satisfactory.

I pity the man or woman who has never learned to enjoy nature and to get strength and inspiration out of it.