If you can dream it, you can do it.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
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.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
