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.

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.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

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

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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

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.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

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

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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.

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?

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

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.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

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.

An honest man is always a child.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I love a natural look in pictures.

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.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

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

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

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

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

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.

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.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

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

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

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

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

Dream and you shall become.

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

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