American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.