If You Listen Carefully Enough To Anything,

I Went To The Trash Pile At Tuskegee Institute And Started My Laboratory With Bottles, Old Fruit Jars And Any Other Thing I Found I Could Use. ... [the Early Efforts Were] Worked Out Almost Wholly On Top Of My Flat Topped Writing Desk And With Teacups, Glasses, Bottles And Reagents I Made Myself.

You Can't Teach People Anything. You Can Only Draw Out.

I Know That My Redeemer Lives. Thank God I Love Humanity, Complexion Doesn't Interest Me One Single A Bit.

To Those Who Have As Yet Not Learned The Secret Of True Happiness, Which Is The Joy Of Coming Into The Closest Relationship With The Maker And Preserver Of All Things: Begin Now To Study The Little Things In Your Own Door Yard.

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.