They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.