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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

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

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

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

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

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.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

One day, I want to make a PG film.

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

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.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Power is competence.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

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.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

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

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.