"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

"I am a good listener, but I also have a great deal of patience."

"I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter."

"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to try and invent it."

"I make more mistakes than anyone I know, and sooner or later, I patent them all."