Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.