What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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.
You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.
I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.
My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.
I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall
I've been blessed to live a lot of dreams.
It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.
