There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. – Bill Gates
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Sir Walter Scott