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

"We do not intend to fly for money, but for the love of the art."

"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 monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."

"It was impossible to convince the people generally that we were not a pair of lunatics."