“Into each life some rain must fall.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A rainy day today, gray and wet. What better song for Song Saturday th...

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” - Albert Einstein I was in Adelaide for the ...

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” - Pl...

“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to ...

“Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.” - Aristotle I was in the train yesterday, coming home after a full day at work. ...

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of w...

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it...

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lo...

“We would love to be boring. Plain vanilla is fine.” - Peggy Fowler It’s been a very full week and I am glad it’s Friday. I came home tod...

“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” - José Narosky Tomorrow is Remembrance Day here in Australia. This is because the eleventh ho...

“Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it” - Mark Twain Today we experienced one of those...

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” - Arthur Schopenhauer The image from Magpie Tales is a rather lugubrious...

“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.” - Samuel Johnson We watched the third an...

“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” - Pablo Picasso We have an interstate guest visiting so we decided t...

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato I’ve had an ex...

“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people” - Wendell Phill...

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” - Mahatma Gandhi I was in Sydney for the day for work toda...

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wil...

“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.” - Emily Dickinson A page of white writing paper is an invitation – or...

“Being happy is better than being king” - African Proverb We watched the excellent 2010 film by Tom Hooper “The King’s Speech” at the we...