Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

When I give, I give myself.

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.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

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

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.