Only when I fall do I get up again.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

We're lost, but we're making good time

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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.

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