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 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.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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 used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

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

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

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

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

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

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

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

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

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.

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.

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

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

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

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

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

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