Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

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.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

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.

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.