1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Success Mindset because... Whatever you create in your imagination and dreams, will require the right mindset to manifest in reality.

— Tony Dovale

5-4-10 Tuesday 8:00 A.M. Made a large batch of chili and spaghetti to freeze yesterday. And some walnut fudge! Relieved the electricity is still on. It’s another beautiful sunny day with fluffy white clouds drifting by. The last cloud bank looked like a dog with nursing pups. I open the window and let in some fresh air filled with the scent of apple and plum blossoms and flowering lilacs. Feels like it’s close to 70 degrees. There’s a boy on a skate board being pulled along by his St. Bernard, who keeps turning around to see if his young friend is still on board. I’m thinking of a scene still vividly displayed in my memory. I was nine years old. Furthermore, I cut through the country club on my way home from school and followed a narrow stream, sucking on a jawbreaker from Ben Franklin's, and I had some cherry and strawberry pixie straws, and banana and vanilla taffy inside my coat pocket. The temperature was in the fifties so it almost felt like spring. There were still large patches of snow on the fairways in the shadows and the ground was soggy from the melt off. Enthralled with the multi-layers of ice, thin sheets and tiny ice sickles gleaming under the afternoon sun, dripping, streaming into the pristine water below, running over the ribbons of green grass, forming miniature rapids and gently flowing rippling waves and all the reflections of a crystal cathedral, merging with the hidden world of a child. Seemingly endless natural sculptures. Then the hollow percussion sounds of the ice thudding, crackling under my feet, breaking off little ice flows carried away into a snow-covered cavern and out the other side of the tunnel. And I followed it all the way to bridge under Maple Road as if I didn't have a care in the world.

— Andrew Neff

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

— Marty Rubin

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

— Sidney Sheldon

A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Just a year later I decided to read the book. And what was my surprise that I was even more dazzled by its writings than I was by the images… The images in my head were more vivid than the film could ever transport me to that feminine universe that the author was trying (and so successfully granted me) to conceive…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

— Katrina Mayer

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

— Jeanette Winterson

A child-like mind is full of imagination.

— Pearl Zhu

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

— Doug Dillon