Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

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

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.