It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!