George Washington Carver

90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

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 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.

We have become ninety-nine 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.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

NOTE-Always remove the brown hull from the peanuts even though the recipe does not say so.

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

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, ‘In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.’ (Proverbs 3:6)

How do I talk to the flower?
Through it I walk to the Infinite.
And what is the infinite?
It is that silent, small force.
It isn't the outer physical contact. No, it isn't that.
The infinite is not confirmed in the visible world.
It is not in the earthquake, the wind or the fire.
It is that still small voice that calls up the fairies.
Yet when you look out upon God's beautiful world- there it is.
When you look onto the heart of a rose there you experience it- but you can't explain it.

There are certain things, often very little things, like the peanut, the little piece of clay, the little flower that cause you to look within-
and then you see the soul of things.

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

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.

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

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

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.