“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” - Confucius For Song Saturday today, I return to my childhood...

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational obj...

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so ...

“As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to d...

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”...

“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry wo...

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” - Henry David Thoreau In ancient Greece there once lived a mortal princess named Psyche...

"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently ...

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” - Voltaire This ver...

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only dif...

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.” - Charles Lamb Dredging the old journals once again to find this poem ...

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” - William Faulkne...

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve had a 16 hour work day today, going in to work at 6:30 am and not ...

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work.  I told her I worked at the college - that my job was...

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” - Aesop What a day today! We didn’t stop from dawn to dusk as I ha...

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi Some of you may know that Australia is a popular place for i...

“A book that is shut is but a block.” - Thomas Fuller I have blogged before about book burning and it is the topic of today’s blog once...

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” - Voltaire For poetry Wednesday today, an old poem of mine that I ...

“Love’s first snow-drop, virgin kiss.” - Robert Burns The snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis , is the birthday flower for this day, the feast of...

“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?” - Samuel Goldwyn Se...