“If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.”

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

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

There is no short cut to acheivement.

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

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.

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

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.

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

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

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.

Education is understanding relationships.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.

Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

I heard the universe whisper “take care of her”

Health is a wealth that is irreplaceable and we only realize its value when it starts failing.

The best way to be misunderstood is to care too much.