There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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.

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.

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. 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.

There is a use for almost everything.