“When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.”

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.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

When a man takes time to consider whether he will do a good or civil action, be assured he will never do it. The baser feelings, the calculations of interest and timidity, always prevail.