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

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

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

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

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.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

A letter does not blush.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Facts are stubborn things.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

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.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

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.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

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.

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

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.