“Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.”

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.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

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

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

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

It is simply service that measures success.

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

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.