My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
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 question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Ideas come from everything
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.