A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Be yourself, let you come through.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.