Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

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.

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. 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.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.