If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

All thinking men are atheists.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

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

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

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