Orville Wright

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

If we worked on the assumption that what is currently regarded as impossible is not really impossible, but merely difficult, we should be able to make some progress.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have time to fall.

We could not have learned to fly if we had been afraid to fall.

It is a pleasure to look forward to the day when the flying machine will be an accomplished fact.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously at the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the lightest wind, and wished they, too, could have such an easy mode of travel.

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

The machine itself was a thing of beauty, a marvel of ingenuity, a triumph of human skill.

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

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

We had no idea that we were making history.

The problem of flight is one of the most difficult that has ever been attempted by man.

We did not have any scientific education, but we had a great deal of practical experience.

The air is an ocean, and we are but fish in it.

We were not looking for fame or fortune, but for the satisfaction of solving a difficult problem.

The first flight was a moment of pure exhilaration.

We had to learn everything for ourselves, as there were no books on the subject.

The machine was so simple that anyone could have built it.

The future of aviation is limitless.

We were just two boys with a dream.