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

"It is our view that morally the world owes its almost universal use of our system of lateral control entirely to us. It is also our opinion that legally it owes it to us."

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

"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, …"

"The first great principle of success in flying is to learn to soar without power."