Always do what you are afraid to do.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

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

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.