"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius "We come alone, we leave alone. Everything else is a gift." -- A Change of Seasons, 1980 (film). "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -- Edgar Allen Poe "Who is it to say that dreams and nightmares are not as real as here and now. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination..." -- John Lennon "Now I don't know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." [Chwang-Tse, upon awakening from a dream of being a butterfly.] -- In The Net Of Dreams by Wm. Mark Simmons "Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself." -- Kahlil Gibran "Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big." -- Umberto Eco "To achieve great things We must not only act But also dream Not only plan, But also believe". -- Author unknown