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

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.

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."

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

When you give the supply of discipline, life becomes easy for you.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Anytime I button my coat, I'm packed.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.