I believe that every person is born with talent.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

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

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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