Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There is always room at the top.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

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

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.