Alphabetical Index of Authors

1. If ones motives are wrong, nothing can be right.
2. Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
3. When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
4. Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
5. Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
6. 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.
7. If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
8. Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
9. Learn to do the common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
10. 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.
11. 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 the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
12. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.