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We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.