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.

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

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Because of the Law of Attraction, each of you is like a powerful magnet, attracting unto you more of the way that you feel at any point in time.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

When you talk about Islamic terror. You go, oh, you're an Islamic - you're Islamophobic because you besmirching all Muslims. No. I'm talking about Islamic terror.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

It's not the things we get but the hearts we touch that will determine our success in life.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.