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.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

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

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I miss my singing career very much.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. 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 stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

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

I don’t read books much.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.