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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.