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.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

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.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.