The Wright Brothers

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in half-civilized days, watched the birds and envied them. In the more civilized days, we dreamed of flying, but we did not know how to do it. Now we know how to do it, and we are doing it.

It is not necessary to be a horse to be a jockey.

If we worked on the assumption that what is currently regarded as impossible is possible, we should be able to make some progress.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

The course of an inventor's life is not a bed of roses.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

The only way to learn to fly is to fly.

Success is not a matter of luck, but of hard work and perseverance.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The machine itself is the best teacher.

We were lucky enough to have been born at the right time.

The problem of flight is one of the most difficult of all problems.

We do not believe in the impossible.

The bird is the master, the man is the pupil.

The air is an ocean, and we are learning to navigate it.

We had to be our own engineers, our own mechanics, our own pilots.

The way to success is to keep on trying.

The difficulties are not so great as they appear.

We were not afraid to make mistakes.

The greatest joy in life is to accomplish something that others say cannot be done.