All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
