Wilbur Wright

“I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine.”

“From the time we were little children, my brother Orville and I lived together, played together, worked together and, in fact, thought together.”

“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.”

“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, then there would be little hope for advance.”

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

“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”

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

“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 on the birds soaring freely through space.”

“What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery.”

“We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.”

“There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.”