"The machine itself was nothing; the method was everything."

"The machine had scarcely cleared the ground when it began to turn up, and the next instant it darted into the ground."

"We have hopes of making a flight of considerable length before long."

"We were not looking for a fortune, but we were looking for a solution."

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