"To me, the idea and expectation that..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“If there is a better solution... find it.”

“Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination”

“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”

“I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.”

“...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)”

“On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.”

“In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.”

“After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.”

“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”