Great moments are born great opportunity.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.