“There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.”

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

When one door closes, another one opens.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

There’s a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it’s boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

The only victory over love is flight.

Mental health and family above all things. Period.