There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

You are never too old to become younger!

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

You shape your own destiny.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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