“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”

“Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.”

“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”

“(Woman to psychic) Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?”

“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”

“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“Consciousness, the great poem of matter, seems so unlikely, so impossible, and yet here we are with our loneliness and our giant dreams.”