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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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

Fate pulls you in different directions.

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

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 have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

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

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Character is destiny.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

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.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.