Nikola Tesla — "I am unwilling to submit to any procedure for the determination of my mental con…"

"This gives you vigor and vitality."

"All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."

"The human being is a self-propelled automaton, and I am the biggest one in the world."

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that of the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make one forget food, sleep, …"

"A man is born to work, to suffer and to fight; he who doesn't, must perish."