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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Property is organized robbery.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I miss my singing career very much.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

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

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

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

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.