It Is Simply Service That Measures Success.

A Life That Stood Out As A Gospel Of Self-forgetting Service. He Could Have Added Fortune To Fame But Caring For Neither He Found Happiness And Honor In Being Helpful To The World. The Centre Of His World Was The South Where He Was Born In Slavery Some 79 Years Ago And Where He Did His Work As A Creative Scientist.

I Went To The Trash Pile At Tuskegee Institute And Started My Laboratory With Bottles, Old Fruit Jars And Any Other Thing I Found I Could Use. ... [the Early Efforts Were] Worked Out Almost Wholly On Top Of My Flat Topped Writing Desk And With Teacups, Glasses, Bottles And Reagents I Made Myself.

Ninety-nine Percent Of The Failures Come From People Who Have The Habit Of Making Excuses.

Where There Is No Vision, There Is No Hope.

In These Strenuous Times, We Are Likely To Become Morbid And Look Constantly On The Dark Side Of Life, And Spend Entirely Too Much Time Considering And Brooding Over What We Can't Do, Rather Than What We Can Do, And Instead Of Growing Morose And Despondent Over Opportunities Either Real Or Imaginary That Are Shut From Us, Let Us Rejoice At The Many Unexplored Fields In Which There Is Unlimited Fame And Fortune To The Successful Explorer And Upon Which There Is No Color Line; Simply The Survival Of The Fittest.