Alexander Graham Bell — "The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."

"The deaf should not intermarry."

"I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought."

"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 deaf must hear, and the blind must see."

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself."