Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Edison: "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."

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

Edison: "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

Edison: "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

Edison: "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Edison: "There's a way to do it better - find it."

Edison: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease."

Edison: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison: "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."

Edison: "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

Edison: "I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."