Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed.
—Langston Hughes
He who stops being better stops being good.
—Oliver Cromwell
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
—Cary Grant
Some people think that a place can save them. Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.
—Hannah Harrington in Saving June
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
—Jonathan Swift
No one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.
—Rachel Cohn in Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
—Evelyn Waugh
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
—William Ellery Channing
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
—Samuel Johnson
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
—Jodie Foster
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
—Gustave Flaubert
Reach for the stars.
—Christa McAuliffe