The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

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

Genius, when young, is divine.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

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

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Children are all foreigners.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Hope is a waking dream.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Youth is wasted on the young.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It is one thing to record an album but it’s a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.