“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense a...

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of ...

“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have live...

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something w...

“I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.” – Tony Curtis I rather dislike talking on the telephone. More so on the mobi...

“We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when w...

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle We had our graduation ceremony in Melbourne today at the Melbour...

“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.” – Adam...

  “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man s...

“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.” – William Shakespea...

“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brother...

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell For Movie Monday today I’ll first talk about politic...

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” - Claude Monet For Art Sunday today, something different. We watched an excellent 3-h...

“It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.” – Brigitte Bardot For Music Saturday today a Neapolitan song s...

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank Last Wednesday night I wen...

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” - François Fénelon The terrible situation in Thailand seems to be escalating and...

“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the ed...

 “A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.” - Robert Brault I have a liking for those special days when Goo...

“A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.” – Herodotus We watched a co...