We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

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

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

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

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

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.