The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

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.

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.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

I never had a sense of home.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.