Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

Begin with the end in mind.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

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.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Facts are stubborn things.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.