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.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

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.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.