To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
When we can't dream any longer, we die.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
