We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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.

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

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

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

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

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.‘

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I always entertain great hopes.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

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

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

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

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.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

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

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

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

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

It is natural to want to have a future.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

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

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

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.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

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.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

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.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

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

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.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.