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

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Make today worth remembering.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.