"The only bird that could speak told us what it knew, but we didn’t understand its language."

"It is a question of whether the machine was designed to be beautiful, or beautiful because it was well designed."

"We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better."

"In its campaign to discredit others in the flying art, the Smithsonian has issued scores of these false and misleading statements."

"Often, after an hour or so of heated argument, we would discover that we were as far from agreement as when we started, but that each had changed to the other's original position."