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

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

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.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.