It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

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

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.