“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, pushes the mind towards the boundless, makes it float in the illimitable. There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.”

“The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.”

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”

“The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself.It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded before his eyes, like a house of cards.”

“I like the idea of a dream being hoarded for future generations.”