This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, remarkable. Very. I wouldn't have credited either of you with so much imagination. Or is it that I am imagining? Quite likely I'm dreaming of myself in a wet tree on a thundery night. Except I never have dreams, or perhaps I only forget them. This one I suggest we all forget.I'll own up: I think it is a dream. Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

Truman Capote, The Glass Harp

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

Mark Gorman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Frances Rodman

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Lec, More Unkempt Thou

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

NeNe Leakes

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Ellen Barkin

Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

Francis Chan