“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

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

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I start where the last man left off.

I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Work while others are wishing.

Learning is hard. Unlearning is harder. Pretending that most of us don’t need to do either when it comes to racism is its own form of violence.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I love you now for what we’ve already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that’s to come.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I’m not enjoying it, I will leave football.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

True love has the power of coming back.

Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I’ve come too far, and I don’t know how to get back.