Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.