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

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.

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."

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

Everybody feel pain except a woman who kicks a man in the balls.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.

I support an all-of-the-above approach attacking climate change - everything from moving America towards being carbon-neutral, moving our country towards clean energy.

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.