Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.