“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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.

Loving someone is slow dancing with emotions in a burning room.

If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

No matter how many tears are running down her face, They’ll never stand a chance to the fire burning in her heart.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I’m over the moon but burned under the sun, what I’ve gained I’ve lost all along.

Those little specks of burning fire showing me that light is never actually too far away

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

True art comes from flying with the madness so close you burn your eyelashes.