People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.