“To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.”

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.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

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.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Catch the light and begin again.

When my world grows dark I remember: Every light begins with a spark.

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.