The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

I know nothing, so I study.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

You have to trust yourself.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them