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...
We are governed not by armies but by ideas.
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
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.
One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.
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.
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...
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.
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
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.
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.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Our visions begin with our desires.
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.