Kahlil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
  

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
  

(…) yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
  

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
  

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
  

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.