I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Above all things, respect yourself.