“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Consider data without prejudice.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

A man’s best friend is a good wife.

I failed my way to success.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

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.