We are governed not by armies but by ideas.
To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
When there is no vision people perish.
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...
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.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
Five minutes just before going to sleep given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow will steadily and increasingly bear fruit particularly if all ideas...
The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
Within your heart keep one still secret spot where dreams may go.
The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Our visions begin with our desires.
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
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.
Instead of thinking about where you are think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
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.