We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.

More than anything else the sensation of flying is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost if you can conceive of such a combination.

In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.