“The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.”

“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”

“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”

“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.”

“Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.”

“Today is all you have, so gather the best from it for tomorrow too quickly becomes yesterday.”

“Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.”