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.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering