My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Live out of your imagination not your history.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing to imagine your facts is another.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

First comes thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you will observe is in your imagination.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains, but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

To open the Eternal Worlds to open the immortal Eyes Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity Ever expanding in the Bosom of God the Human Imagination.