There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

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

Education is understanding relationships.

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.

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

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.