“I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke ...

“The heart remembers what the head erased.” – Korean proverb I was in Sydney for the day today for work. I attended a special Australia-K...

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bo...

“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.” – Raymond Chandler Byz...

“It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of eq...

“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.” - William B. Yeats Please read this poem: Absent from Thee ...

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. – Edward Hall We had a very quiet Sunday today, going out for...

“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer I was in Brisbane for the day today ...

“Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what...

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a ...

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – William Shakespeare One of the s...

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” - Aristotle Onassis What are little girls made of, made of? W...

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker We watched Stephen Gaghan’s 2005 film “Syriana” at...

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” - Dwight D. Eisen...

“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” - Henri Amiel ...

“We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.” - William Os...

“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.  Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” - George...

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” – Oscar Wilde I was reading a friend’s blog today and she mention...

“Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.” - Horace News of the coalmin...

“What is tolerance?  It is the consequence of humanity.  We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other'...