Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots, people, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.