It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

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

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

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

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.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

I am the captain of my soul.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.