If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

You have to dream before your dreams can come 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 way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

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

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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