When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.