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.

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

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

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

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.

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.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.