Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia…Alexander Graham Bell March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922. He gave us the telephone and much more.

“In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.”

“It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.”

“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 quit until he finds it.”

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”