Sunshine and a bench

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench.
Samuel Beckett

Great deeds.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Magic carpet

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

Computers

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

The Sea

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nothing gold can stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

Begin again.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again.
Jeanette Winterson

Things have changed

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau