“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.”

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

A man without words is a man without thought.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.

[Going to Barca] was a decision I took with my family. They helped me a lot. It’s been a dream come true. I’m really happy.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

I’m a bit sad because I’m leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for nine years in Santos. But I’m even happier to be facing a new challenge and for making a dream come true.

Every day you say ‘No’ to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months.