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

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

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.

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