The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

We're lost, but we're making good time

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

The time is always right to do the right thing

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

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

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

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.