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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Make today worth remembering.

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

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

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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