George Washington Carver

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.

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.

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.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

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.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

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

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.