So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

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

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

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.