The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

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

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.