How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Common sense

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
Albert Einstein

Poetry

Poetry is like bread. It should be shared by all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.
Pablo Neruda
(found on Jo Bradford's blog. Check it out here)

From a sonnet...

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love mathematics

In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman

The present moment

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable, than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact.
Milan Kundera

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

A cocktail

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis Bacon