“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” - Leopold Stokowski Some quintessential musical pas...

“It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.”...

“No good opera plot can be sensible: People do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” - W.H. Auden Last night we went to the Opera and...

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you ...

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” - Francis Bacon I am thankful I ha...

“One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano ; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The d...

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” - Roger Miller The full effect of yesterday’s storm has become apparent around our C...

 “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” – Mark Twain We have had a massive hailstorm here in Melbourne today, followed by h...

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Back home today after flying in wi...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain I had a wander through The Rocks district today. The Rocks a...

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu I am in Sydney for two days attending a staff development ...

“It is doubtlessly true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.” - Karl Menninger Today it is St Ce...

“Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attentio...

“He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light” – Arabian proverb The massive 8.8 Richter earthquake that shook C...

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Today is the Independence Day of the Dominican Republic   (celebrated sin...

“If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the pai...

“There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” - Benjamin Franklin A Dutch study published recently suggests that lack of sleep is associ...

“The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.” - Marcel Proust The sense of smell is one that characterises more than any oth...

“Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.” - Mahatma Gandhi Today is the Roman Day VII Kalends March , the las...

“We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and...