“Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.”

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.

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.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

It’s better to show up than to give up.

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Everything you do is up to you.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

If you don’t dream big, there’s no use of dreaming. If you don’t have faith, there’s nothing worth believing.