There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.