This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

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

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Aim for the highest.

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

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

They alone live, who live for others.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

You shape your own destiny.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.