The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.“It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.People ask me if I could fly. I said: 'Yeah - for a little while.'If you want to fly, you have to let go what pulls you down.4
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.Flying is not merely some crude, mechanical process. It is a delicate art. Purely aesthetic. Poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it.If a bird doesn't dare to fly, it'll never know it lives in a cage."Momentum," She repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run."One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.It was the first time in the history of the world that a machine carrying a man and driven by a motor had lifted itself from the ground in free flight.I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. 
