“The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.”

“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“Dreams are reality waiting to happen.”

Nick Jonas (1992) American singer

“First to dream and then to do— isn't that the way to make a dream come true?”

Meindert DeJong book The Wheel on the School

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

“You may ask what kind of republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such people it is impossible to solve any of our problems — human, economic, ecological, social, or political.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”

Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing