A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
Do the thing and the power will come.
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
Life’s most soothing things are a child’s goodnight and sweet music.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something...
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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 have had a lot of success with failure.