“What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

“She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible.”

“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”

“May we not imagine that possibly this earthly life of ours is to the other life what sleeping is to waking? May not all our life be a dream and death an awakening? But an awakening to what? And supposing that everything is but the dream of God and that God one day will awaken? Will He remember His dream?”

“Prince Charming, prince of the mockers —
compared with him the foulest of sinners
is grace incarnate…”

“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”

“Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him,
Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid;
Sleep, mystic sleep, for many a year has bound him,
Yet his beauty, like a statue's pale and fair, is undecay'd.
When will he awaken?”

“He read with a charming full voice, and when everyone was applauding, "how much", he asked, "would you have applauded if you had heard the original?"”
Quam cum suavissima et maxima voce legisset, admirantibus omnibus "quanto" inquit "magis miraremini, si audissetis ipsum!"

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”