“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!” - Wallace Stevens A beautiful fine and warm day today. We took the opportunity...

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus I am quite relieved it’s Friday, as it has been a very busy ...

“O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in it!” – William Sh...

“The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pesti...

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live toge...

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”   James Earl Jones Yesterday was a cold winter’s ...

“The painter can and must abstract from many details in creating his painting. Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. A...

“Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there...

“It won’t do to dream of caramel, to think of cinnamon, and long for you…” – Suzanne Vega I had a very busy day at work today with not a ...

“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” - Hans Nouwens The internet has revolutionis...

“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.” - Paul Newman A family friend of ours was admitted into a n...

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” - Susan Sontag Yester...

“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” - George ...

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and ...

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” - Gertrude Stein A colleague left yesterday for a trip to France and it was his last da...

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: It is the time ...

“When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing – nothing at all.” - Saint Francis of Assisi Every morning I commute to work on the train...