Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Everything you can imagine is real.

One man with courage is a majority.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

It's always too early to quit.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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