Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

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

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!