“Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.” Sometimes we try to please too many people at once and all we manage achieve is our own mise...

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.” - Christopher Morley Every morning as I ...

“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.” - Mary Ellen Chase As we approach Christmas , it is interesting to note why December 25th ...

“Human beings love company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg This morning as I was walking t...

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.” – George Scialabba It is Arthur C. Clarke’s birthday today and he was born in 1917. ...

“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” - Chinese Proverb I watched Stanley Kubrick’s “20...

“To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.” - Michael Servetus We live in interesting times and that reminds me of the C...

“Mine is the night, with all her stars.” - Edward Young For Song Saturday, a song by Italian Singer/Songwriter Franco Battiato. A little rem...

“To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” - William James One of the duties that I have to attend to...

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” - William Shakespeare For Word Thursday today: lunatic |ˈloōnəˌtik|...

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” - Friedrich Nietzsche The events in Athens still prey on m...

“The keenest sorrow is to recognise ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” – Sophocles It is with horror and disgust that I wa...

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” - Jessamyn West Well, my computer is fixed - it turns out that there was a problem with soft...

“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” - Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a few notes of a song half heard w...

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” - William Makepeace Thackeray I have been distressed these past few ...

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill Today, 1st of De...

“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” - Welsh Proverb For Art Sunday today, a painting by South Australian Artis...

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” - Russell Baker In the 1960s in Greece a group of young university students...

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” - Will Rogers I was in Brisbane today for ...

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” - W.T. Purkiser It is a special day in ...