Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing has no education no money lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another through sheer force of will he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education in roads and bridges in science and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that that's what President Obama believes.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

After all those days in the cotton fields the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start I've just followed my dreams.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends it shows his mind working in real time sentence by sentence in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

College baseball I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know those guys take advantage of it.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams I'm up for that.

Never set limits go after your dreams don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love ' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love ' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were after all badly affected. For years afterwards at least ten years I kept getting these dreams in which I had to crawl through ruined houses along passages I could hardly get through.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly you become free.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path not chasing after the dreams of others.

Stay focused go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

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

I stand for freedom of expression doing what you believe in and going after your dreams.