I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Religion is all bunk.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.