“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”

“No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.”

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

“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”

“From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

“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.”

“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.”