The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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