Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world read more

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.