- 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.
- 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.
- Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
- When I was young, I said to God, God, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
- 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.
- Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
- Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
- 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.
- Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- 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.
Photograph courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
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