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.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

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. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.