“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Q...

“You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.” ...

“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good...

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of pea...

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson From a very young age, I was brought up to be courteous and respect...

“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.” - William Ernest Hocking Today was the Quee...

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keeffe ...

“It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.” - Ted Koppel A song from my youth, today sung by Don McLean . I ...

“After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.” - James Howell I was up in Brisbane for work onc...

“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...

“In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.” - Ben Jonson Oh, what a wintry day today in Melbourne! I was at the trai...

“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 steal...

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” - Pablo Casals We watched an Indian movie from B...

“Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” - Victor Hugo Fo...

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense a...

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of ...

“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have live...

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something w...

“I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.” – Tony Curtis I rather dislike talking on the telephone. More so on the mobi...