To treat your facts with imagination is one thing to imagine your facts is another.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone for someone pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Imagination decides everything.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.

And by the way everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous for them everything is possible.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before it's impossible.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

To imagine is everything to know is nothing at all.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public but they itch in public.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written Republican politicians... if they all love you you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Certainly anyone whom I've witnessed who has gone through something horrible and life-changing has a sense of ironic humor or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.