How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

I can see clearly my visions.

Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Italy is not a country for beginners.

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.