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.

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

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.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.