“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in...

“My favorite animal is steak.” - Fran Lebowitz Another very busy day at work today, in which I achieved lots, at least. I just wish that ...

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” - Bill Watterson A ver...

“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” - Michel de Montaigne While we are still reeling under the effe...

“I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.” - John Buchan Tod...

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” - Alfred Hitchcock We watched two ...

“The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning...

“Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.” - Giacomo Leopardi What a night we had last night and what a morni...

“Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.” - Thomas Fuller Lentils are a wonderful food – packed wit...

“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun h...

“The soul’s impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one whic...

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln It is National Freedom Day in the USA today. It comm...

“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.” – George Bernard Shaw We watched a good film at the...

“It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.” - David Harris One of the most pe...

“In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.” - Naguib Ma...

“Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.” - Tony Hendra Despite the holiday midweek, this was a difficult and busy week with much ha...

“You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster” - Quentin Crisp I was...

“Our true nationality is mankind.” - H. G. Wells Happy Australia Day to all my Australian friends! This is a day for all Australians to ...

“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night...

“We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.” - Eric Hoffer Last Saturday w...