To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

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.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.