“Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.”
“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”
“I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
“Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.”
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
“The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.”
“Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”
“The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.”
“I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.”
“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
“You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”
“It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.”
“You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.”
“I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. [On the subject of her early aspirations]”
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”
“You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.”
“Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.”