"Before you can achieve anything, you must know what you want. And you must be prepared to sacrifice your comfort to get it."

"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. It is perseverance in the pursuit of studies …"

"The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and inspire them to be what they always wanted to be."

"The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living."

"We should not permit the deaf to intermarry, nor should we permit the marriage of a deaf-mute with a hearing person, nor the marriage of persons with deaf relatives."