Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

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

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

It always seems impossible until it's done.