To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

—Cynthia Ozick

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

—Cynthia Ozick

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

—Cynthia Ozick

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

—Brett Butler

Hope is a waking dream.

—Aristotle

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

—Anatole France

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

—Aeschylus

Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb