"I have not the time for both a wife and an airplane."

"The air, like the sea, is an untamed element."

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

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their weary journeys over endless plains, yearned for a swifter and less laborious mode of travel."

"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician—something the magician won't tell, and the bird can't tell."