Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

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

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!