“There are three kinds of disciples: those who impart Zen to others, those who maintain the temples and shrines, and then there are the rice bags and the clothes hangers.”

Nyogen Senzaki (Jon Winokur, Compiler and Editor, Zen To Go)

“Easy to call, hard to run. Let’s go!”

Frequent final comment in a huddle by legendary Oakland Raiders quarterback Kenny “Snake” Stabler

“I make mistakes. I’ll be the second to admit it.”

Jean Kerr (playwright and author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies)

“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It’s my job to put them out of business.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“politics are vulgar when they are not liberalized by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.”

English historian Sir John Seeley (quoted by Canadian Islamic Congress national president Mohamed Elmasry in Globe and Mail June 7 2004)

“It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.”

P.J. O’Rourke Parliament of Whores

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its power of acting and reasoning as fear.”

Edmund Burke

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”

John Foster Dulles