There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

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.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

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

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.