My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.

You embody the strength of 10, 000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.