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.

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.

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

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

To Dream The Impossible Dream, Is Something Great We All Should Do

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.