“Happy the man, and happy he alone,/ He, who can call today his own:/ He who, secure within, can say: ‘Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.’”
The Roman poet Horace, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest Mercatornet article I say the Capitol hill riot resulted from unchecked hatred in the human heart, and should not be the trigger for more of the same from anyone.
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“a maddening knowledge that among fools in the land of Egypt I might claim high rank…”
Narrator Shan Greville in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the task now for everyone is to find a constructive way forward, not to retreat further into sneering tribalism.
“To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living