You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund burke

In the garden of gentle sanity,
may you be bombarded by
coconuts of wakefulness

Chögyam Trungpa; Timely Rain

…the most fruitful developments
frequently take place at those points
where two different lines of thought meet.

Werner heisenberg

My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

Bankei (Upon being challenged to produce a miracle during his lecture at Ryumon-ji Temple)

We cannot catch the fleeting minute
and put it alongside a later minute.

Arthur Milne