You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

There is always room at the top.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

It's always too early to quit.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

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.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.