I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.