The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.

Don't part with your allusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

The President tonight has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man." The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them."

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

You see things and say, 'why'? but I dream things that never were and say, 'why not'?