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.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

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

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

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.

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