"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

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

"Success in inventing depends on the close observation of nature."

"I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for 50 years. Two years later, we were making flights. This demonstration of my inability as a prophet gave me such a shock…"

"We had taken up the invention of the flying machine as a sport."