“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.” - Christian Morgenstern A nice restful day today… Then a wonderful evening at...

“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” - Brendan Francis Behan It is...

“There shall be no compulsion in religion.” – Qur’an 2:236; "The Cow” Our Muslim students are observing Ramadan presently. I chanced...

“There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.” - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster We came home to a wet, grey and cold Melbourne...

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” ...

“You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.” – Ho Chi Minh We visite...

“A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create somethin...

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” - Antoine de S...

“Rice is a beautiful food. It is beautiful when it grows, precision rows of sparkling green stalks shooting up to reach the hot summer sun....

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” - Pearl Buck Hanoi (or more properly Hà Nội in Vietnamese) is the capit...

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” - George Bernard Shaw It is 11:11 p.m. local time here in Hanoi ( and 2:11 a.m. Melbourne t...

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley Well, tomorrow morning we are leaving for a holi...

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” - Thomas Campbell Being Movie Monday today, I shall once again review a film that we w...

“The trouble about man is twofold.  He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.” - Rebecca We...

“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables” - Sappho A quiet day today and an even quieter evening tonight. For Music Saturday, so...

“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.” - William...

“It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou co...

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.” - Abraham Lincoln For Poetry Wednesday today, Yannis Ritsos (1909–90), a G...

“To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disor...

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet van Horne I was in Brisbane today for work and it...