The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

We're lost, but we're making good time

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

The best way out is always through.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style