“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social dise...

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   I am...

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of ...

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to lov...

“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.” - Nancy Astor Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), whose pers...

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” - Victor Hugo I wrote the following snippet of a story as a re...

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remai...

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” - T. S. Eliot Poetry Jam  this week sets as its theme the doublet tea/coffee. Contrib...

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social di...

“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” - Richard M. DeVos ...

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” - Leonardo da Vinci We watched a very good Japanese ...

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” - Willi...

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” - Benjamin Disraeli   Although Wollongong is New South Wales’ t...

“You get educated by travelling.” - Solange Knowles   I am travelling for work again and visiting the seaside city of Wollongong,  loc...

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” - Albert Einstein   I attended a conference in Sydney these past two...

“The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.” - Baz Luhrmann   I am...

“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” - Seneca Sydney is Australia’s largest city, and capital of the state of Ne...