If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.

Education is understanding relationships.

My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o’clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.

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.’ And he told me.

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

The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

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.

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.

We have become 99 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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

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 .

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.

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

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

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

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

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.

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.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

It is simply service that measures success.

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.

There is no short cut to achievement.

Live at home.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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.

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.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.