On Sharing a Horizon

“We all live under the same sky, but we do not all have the same horizon.”

– Konrad Adenauer

On Seizing the Moment

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.”

– Erma Bombeck

On Original Ideas

“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

– Stephen Fry

On Dreaming One’s Work

“I dream my painting and then paint my dream.”

– Vincent van Gogh

Je Suis Paris

‘We’ll always have Paris.’

– Wallis, H.B. (Producer), Curtiz. M. (Director). (1942). Casablanca [Motion Picture]. United States: Warner Bros.

Sea-Fever

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face and a grey dawn breaking.

– John Masefield

Love’s Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Precautions

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

– Alfred Adler