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.

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.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

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

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.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

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

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I miss my singing career very much.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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

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

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

People want to feel hopeful.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

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

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

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.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.