From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

All you need is love.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.