If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

We now see all over Europe, and particularly in England, the curious phenomenon of a nation looking one way, and the government the other - the one forward and the other backward. If governments are to go on by precedent, while nations go on by improvement, they must at last come to a final separation; and the sooner and the more civilly they determine this point, the better.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Your vision is for you. And there will be many times when other people can't see your vision. That's all right because if God gave you the vision, God will give you the provision. God is not going to bring your provision through your sister's vision. It's going to come to you, for you, through you, as soon as you eliminate the deficiencies." — Iyanla Vanzant

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest, Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.