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

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.

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.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.