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

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

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

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

There is always room at the top.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

You got to get it while you can.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.