“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Do the thing and the power will come.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I’m a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

Not all homes are meant to be lived in. Some are meant to be abandoned. Some burnt.

She does not play with fire anymore, Her soul got burnt and hurt many times.

Burnt mirror, smeared glass. Do you like what you see? If my body is a temple, then my poetry is the darkest vestry. My mouth is a chalice, and these words are sacramental.

I think I’ll always remember your birthday and the way you took your coffee because they’ll forever be pieces of you I cannot burn.

We all show our true colors eventually – mine is dark and firesome red. I bet I burned you. I don’t expect to see you soon.

There is light in you that only burns wild when its free. And if you want to be free, truly free, you will have to let go of the notion that you were meant to make everyone happy.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.