Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Be yourself, let you come through.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.