You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

There is always room at the top.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

The best way out is always through.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...