“Sleep little oneSleepGrow strongAnd grow wingsThe world is waiting for you”
“Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even in sleep, he knew there would be time. Adam, after all, lived for nine hundred thirty years.”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”
“A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.”
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”