"The inventor is a man who looks at the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve them."

"The deaf are not a race apart. They are a part of humanity."

"If it is not necessary, it is obviously not advisable, that deaf children should acquire, and use, as their ordinary and habitual means of communication — their vernacular in fact — a language that is…"

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to g…"

"I did not invent the telephone, the telephone invented me."