Be happy, but never satisfied.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

You shape your own destiny.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

All wealth is the product of labor.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.