Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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...

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Aim for the highest.