No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Aim for the highest.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Build it and they will come!

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied. "Earning my living," the second said. "Helping to build a cathedral," said the third.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceiva!. The Previously Unthinkable.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.