Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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.

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.

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

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

A poem should not mean but be.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.