I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
