“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” - Charles de Gaulle It’s our Federal Election day here in Australia...

“Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.” – Henry Ward Beecher I am on a diet. Well not really a ...

“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and c...

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” - Catherine II I cannot but continue to think of the Pakistani drama sti...

“He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.” - Sunshine Magazine The news that keeps coming out of Pakistan is mind-numbing. The ...

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer For this Mo...

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.” - Roger L'Estrange Toulouse Lautrec ...

“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...