"Et ce n’est pas important la guerre des moutons et des fleurs?"
The prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince
In my latest Mercatornet article I say the extended version "making of" DVDs show that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was an amazing logistical and creative achievement that unhappily missed much of the moral point of Tolkien's masterpiece.
"Pain is not suffering"
Slogan on a Nike ad featuring Olympian triathlete Simon Whitfield in Globe and Mail August 27, 2008
"‘The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.'"
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in "Serenity in Storms” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us
In my latest National Post column I say the fact that British millennials are far and away the fattest generation ever is proof that something is very wrong with how we're living today... and I blame family breakdown.
"As long as your players know, deep down, that you are trying to make them as good as they can be, then you can use just about anything [for motivation]. Even a disappearing act. Once, in 1978, we were losing to Notre Dame at halftime. Here was my halftime speech: 'Gentlemen, it’s one thing to be beaten. It’s another to be embarrassed.' And I walked out. We won, 28-14."
Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom BO