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.

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

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.

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.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

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.