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

Some day I shall be President.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

My life is real.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

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.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

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.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

You can stroke people with words.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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 dream of painting and then I paint my dream.