George Washington Carver

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out without contributing something back to the world in which he lived."

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

"I would say greed is the worst human tendency."

"Fear makes a man forget the things he should remember."

"Anything grown in the soil of affection will give forth fruit."

"My work is that of conservation. All that I have done has not been by accident but consciously."

"The time when you need encouragement most is when the fog is thickest and the eyes of faith the dimmest."

"Simplicity and silence are the twin pillars of knowledge."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The principal of our school has lately been exercising dictatorial powers."

"I want to help the farmer see the beauty and the usefulness of the things around him."

"Every worthy accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph."

"I wanted to determine the vital relationship between plants and people."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting your enemy to die."

"We must not, I think, regard the world as so wrecked by the sins of man that Christ's work was intended not to enlarge and extend it, but to repair and restore it."

"Do your work with all your heart and you will do well."

"The proof of love is in the works; it is an actuality, a fact, to be seen and to be realized by actual contact."

"Our Creator has left us mind and material so that we might use them for development of body and spirit."

"Reading is one of the best ways to increase your knowledge."

"I am in partnership with the Creator of all things."

"Somewhere in this world the material is waiting for my hand."

"I have learned, too, that it is impossible to account scientifically for the creative output."

"Poverty of the mind is worse than poverty of the pocketbook."

"Knowledge is not gained by saying, if you believe this, you do not believe that."

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

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

"The mind that is eager and active will always find objects to engage and to reward its attention."

"I have had to overcome many obstacles. My parents were slaves."

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams of yesterday's wishes to be real tomorrow."

"Nature has provided us with every remedy we should ever need."