"The problem was not to build a machine that would fly, but to build a machine that would fly safely."

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

"It is not necessary to be a horse to be a good jockey."

"No flights of any kind were made except those of our own machine, which, strange to say, did not become a public amusement."

"The machine is practically ready for its public demonstration."