If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The time is always right to do the right thing

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.