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.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

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

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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

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

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions