“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.” - Oscar Wilde I spent most o...

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

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Do you remember the last timed you cried? And I don’t mean the la...

“Earth laughs in flowers.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson I was in Brisbane for the day today, leaving on a 6:00 am flight and coming back on a 6:30 ...

“Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.” - François Rabelais October 13th is the birthday of Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow , the G...

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without c...

“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay att...

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The award of the Nobel Pri...

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” - William Ruckelshaus A new national standard was introduced in Austra...

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.” - Jonathan Swift The newspapers tod...

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” - Rainer Maria Rilke Finally got home at 1:30 am this morning after dela...

“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of tr...

“Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honour, We pledge to our na...

“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 ...