Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

I am the captain of my soul.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.