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

Fate pulls you in different directions.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

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.

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

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Intimates are predestined.

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.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

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

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.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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.

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

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I always wanted a family.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with 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.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

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

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

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.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

America is another name for opportunity.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

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

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 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.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

I always entertain great hopes.

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.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.