"Youth doesn't take advice...." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”

“Ideas without execution are hallucinations.”

“From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.”

“I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?”

“When I was young I was playing in midfield on the left for Gondomar in a 4-3-3. I was always the number eight playing to the left. So I always used my left foot because it was required. I don't know, I just feel that I do certain things better with the left foot.”

“Old men make war, young men fight and die”

“There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!”

“I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.”

“A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.”