We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Elegance is refusal.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.