There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

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

The time is always right to do the right thing

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

I am the captain of my soul.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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

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

Aim for the highest.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.