inspiration

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony."

"Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies."

"She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing"I walked in a gray world of nothing."

"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come."

"The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands."

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."

"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."

"You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them."

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears"

"Success is the relentless pursuit of joy."

"Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started."

"We all can be only who we are, no more, no less."

"What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work."

"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."

"I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all."

"To be saved is here, local and mortal"