I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

You shape your own destiny.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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