America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.