Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

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

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.

There is a use for almost everything.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

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

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.