"Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can at it."
Danny Kaye - April 2013

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years." Ralph Waldo Emerson - February/March 2013 "Life is like riding a bike, to keep balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein - January 2013 "In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away" Shing Xiong - December 2012 "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." Elbert Hubbard - November 2012 "Friendship isn't about who you have known the longest, but those who came and never left your side…." Unknown - October 2012 '"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." Mahatma Gandhi - August/September 2012 'The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.' Buddha - July 2012 'Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed' Mwai Kibaki - June 2012 'There's nothing worth the wear of living save laughter and the love of friends' Hillaire Belloc - May 2012 'Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - March April 2012 'Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action' Aristotle - February 2012 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela - January 2012 “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss - November 2011 "Seventy per cent of success in life is showing up." Woody Allen - October 2011 'A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.' George Moore - September 2011 'All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.' Lord Byron - August 2011 'Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you' Maori Proverb - July 2011 "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Robert Frost (poet) - June 2011 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein - May 2011 Life is not measured by its length but by its depth. Lewis Nickerson - April 2011 'The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.' Eastern Proverb - March 2011 'He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.' Martin Luther King - February 2011 'I get by with a little help from my friends.' John Lennon - January 2011 'Music is the universal language of mankind.' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - December 2010 'It takes a long time to grow an old friend' John Leonard - November 2010 "Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow." Paracelsus - October 2010 One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley - September 2010 What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Marina Horner - July 2010 'Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.' Joan Lunden - June 2010 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' John Lennon - May 2010 'Success is not to reach the tape before the rest But losing knowing you have done your best.' Bob Young - April 2010 I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M.Schulz - March 2010 'Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.' Oscar Wilde - February 2010 "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." Ubie Blake - January 2010 'We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.' Winston Churchill - December 2009 "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." Jesse Jackson - October 2009 "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" Katharine Hepburn - September 2009 According to Buddhism, the opportunity of a long life is due to the merit we have gained in the past. Dalai Lama - August 2009 Progress is a great start Donna Brownlee - July 2009 “When you get to 80 years old your memory starts to go….. And when you get to 80 years old your memory starts to go.” Sir Clement Freud - June 2009 "When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt." Unkown - May 2009 The truth will set you free But first it will really piss you off Werner Ehrhart - April 2009 For things you cannot bear treat them as teachers Liao Yiwu - March 2009 Friends are not made By the times spent together But more by the love In the space in between Bob Young - February 2009 Never take life seriously - nobody gets out of it alive anyway Bob Young - January 2009 We are not judged By the years that we live But the good that we do And the love that we give Bob Young 4th January 2009