There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I was at the foot of my class.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.