If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

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.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

I have this extraordinary life during the day and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine he has some scotch we chat we cook and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way you don't dream like that.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

As a doctor when I was minister of health and would go somewhere little girls would come up to me and say 'I want to be like you one day I want to be a doctor.' Now they tell me 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage be a happy father.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Happiness I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep left there to dream of their happiness.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts of our forests of all our great wildernesses.