Be yourself, let you come through.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.