“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi Whenever I come to Singapore, i...

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can....

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” - Voltaire Last night ...

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” - Ha...

30/9/09 “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley Flew into Singapore today and got there ju...

29/9/09 “Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” - C.P. Snow ...

28/9/09 “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the ...

27/9/09 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, whole...

26/9/09 “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land...

“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately mad...

“Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without errata.” - Al...

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” - George Santayana
 Spring ...

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” - H.G. Wells Today is International Car-Free...

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” - Honoré de Balzac We watched the 1964 Jacques Demy film “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” (The Umbrellas o...

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Tomorrow is the Internatio...

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine Saturday night and missing my special someone a lot....

“Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay d...

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” - Robert Frost I was in Adelaide fo...

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” - Alcibiades A poem dedicated ...

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.” - Agatha Christie Butcher’s broom , Ruscus aculeatus , is the birt...