I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

When I give, I give myself.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

You shape your own destiny.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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