Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

There is always a better way.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.