“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.”

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.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Success is the result of hard work.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

Of course education becomes very very important and that’s for our human resource development.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me?

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.