The most pitiful of men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.                                                                                    —Kahlil Gibran

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.                           

                                                                              —Mark Twain

Nothing happens unless first we dream.                 —Carl Sandburg

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.

 —Joseph Campbell

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode.

 —Langston Hughes

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

 —Peter Ustinov

All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.

—Edgar Allen Poe

Society often forgives the criminal, but it never forgives the dreamer.

—Oscar Wilde

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

 —Anais Nin

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes, or fears, or wishes, rather than with their minds.

 —Will Durant

Yet it is our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

 —Virginia Woolf

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.

 —Yiddish proverb

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

 —Susan Sontag

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

 —Carl Jung