We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

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

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

The world remains ever the same.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I love a natural look in pictures.

I’m just a simple country girl.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I do my job like I breathe.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

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

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

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

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

America is another name for opportunity.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Elegance is refusal.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.