“All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur o...

“Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines ar...

“We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that i...

“Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” - Jack Layton Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and...

“Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” - Jack Layton Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and...

“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.” - Salman Rushdie Director Deepa Mehta’s 2012 film “ Midnight’s...

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” - William Blake We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia, but I think this is a g...

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” - Winston Churchill   At the weekend we started watching ...

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”   James Earl Jones Yesterday was a cold winter’s ...

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” - William Shakespeare I really must moderate my expectations of e...

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” - Rabindranath Tagore I illustrated yesterday’s blog with an...

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw According to some sources, t...

“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” - Ed...

“Man! The only animal in the world to fear.” - D.H. Lawrence The weekend was one of glorious autumn weather, with beautiful fine, sunny days...

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” - Plato Some songs stay with us for years and years, and every time we hear them the memories they...

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executione...

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.” – Ausonius July is named after J...