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.

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

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

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.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

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

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.