If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own