We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

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

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

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

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

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.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

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.

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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

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.

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

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

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

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

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.