You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.