Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them...But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.