Youth doesn't take advice.
The dove is my emblem.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 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.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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