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.

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

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

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

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

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.