My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

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.

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.

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.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

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.

There is no short cut to acheivement.