In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the shalt nots of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.

A team's inspiration comes from individuals' aspirations. The combined quality of individual passions makes a team's impact to excel. When you are in a team, play a part!

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.