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

"The time will come when man will fly."

"I believe that my course in sending our Kitty Hawk machine to a foreign museum is the only way of correcting the history of the flying machine, which by false and misleading statements has been perver…"

"We have not yet fully solved the problem of balance in high winds."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."