“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Japan continues to dominat...

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine II More distressing news keeps filtering in from Japan. More...

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” - Kenji Miyazawa News of the massive earthquake and tsunamis in Japan awaited...

“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy;
 It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
 the meat it feeds on.” - William Shakespeare Pennyroyal,...

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” - Elizabeth Lawrence A cool, grey, rainy day today. The weather bureau has re...

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” - Faith Whittlesey It is International Women’...

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We watched Eric Leighton’s and Ralph Zond...

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” - Rabindranath Tagore For Art Sunday today, a whimsical and talented artist from th...

“The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.” - African Proverb Today was a lazy da...

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” - Jane Austen Ah, it’s good to be home! While I love travelling, after a while ...

“All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven his own way.” - Frederick the Great As it was our last day in Singapor...

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu Today we decided to visit Malaysia, just like that, on th...

“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw ...

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.” - Lord Byron T...

“Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problem...

“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.” - Edward Appleton Singapore has ...

“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.” – Epictetus We are travelling to Singapore where I ha...

“All is flowing, ever in a state of flux. Change alone is unchanging.” – Heraclitus of Ephesus The world is changing rapidly all around u...

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau I was mining my archives again this evening looking through old ...

“Public calamity is a mighty leveller” - Edmund Burke The terrible news of the New Zealand earthquake caught me on the road. Yet another ...