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"Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool."

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization."

"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard."

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."

"Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere."

"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains."

"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

"Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it."

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

"Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it."

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."