All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Never let the circumstances of a moment supersede the size of your dreams.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Happy are those who dream dreams, and are willing to pay the price to make them reality.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
I learned this, at least...That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary - new universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws expanded...and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
You're talkin' about the American Dream. You find something that you love and then you twist it and you torture it; Try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that, and at the end you can't find a trace of what you started out loving.
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
There are a lot of people that have dreams. I like to say everyone who has ever had a shower has had a good idea. It's the people who dry off and do something about them that make a difference.
If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working