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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

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.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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 find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

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.

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

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

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.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

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.

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.

I always wanted a family.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

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

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.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

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.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

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

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.

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

We’re all dreamers.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?