There is no shortcut to achievement.

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.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

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

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.