Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Freedom and independence form my character.

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

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

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.