"You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him."

"Marianne tried to stay hopeful. But slowly her imagination bulldozed her optimism aside and pushed her mind…"

"I based my career from the very beginning on people like Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Margaret Rutherford. …"

"But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius c…"

"That tomorrow should come and that I should be there."

"It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams."

"“Sometimes,” said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, “dreams are all that separate us from the machines."