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

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

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

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

No sane man will dance.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

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

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

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