We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

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.

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