“There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.”

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.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

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.

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.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.