Divine Love
"How my very soul goes out to people who have not found the first principle of true happiness and Divine love, which must rule the world."

Sense of Discovery
"Never since have I been without this consciousness of the Creator speaking to me through flowers, rocks, animals, plants, and all other aspects of His creation."

Waste Not, Want Not
" 'Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels'  should be the slogan of every farmer."

Inter-Racial Harmony
"We are brothers, all of us, no matter what race or color or condition; children of the same Heavenly Father. We rise together or we fall together."

Benevolence
"The primary idea in all of my work was to help the farmer and fill the poor man's empty dinner pail. . . My idea is to help the 'man farthest down', this is why I have made every process just as simply as I could to put it within his reach."

Inspiration
"I am trying to get our people to see that their color does not hold them back as much as they think."

Seeking Answers
"This old notion of swallowing down other people's ideas and problems just as they have worked them out without putting our brain and originality into it and making them applicable to our specific needs must go, and the sooner we let them go the sooner we will be a free and independent people."

Humility
"It is impossible for me to tell you how astonished I was yesterday to get a copy of the November issue of Junior Red Cross Journal bearing the illuminating article on "The Sage of Tuskegee".
As I read it an number of times I forgot that it was about myself. In fact, the story is so beautifully and interestingly written that it is hard for me to believe that it is about me, I lose that part of it."