“A man may pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty.”

G.K. Chesterton, “Sherlock Holmes” in A Handful of Authors

“Joy is the glow that accompanies being.”

Erich Fromm To Have and To Be

“A generation had been educated without any basic historical awareness. And a society unaware of its history is like a person suffering from amnesia. It simply cannot function efficiently.”

Norman Davies The Isles

“The state consists of coercion; and must always be justified from its own point of view in extending the bounds of coercion…”

G.K. Chesterton The Superstition of Divorce

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

“There is an old saying: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

George W. Bush 2^nd electoral victory speech Nov. 3 2004

“I was learning the far more secret doctrine that pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility…. But aren’t there bad, unlawful pleasures? Certainly there are. But in calling them ‘bad pleasures’ I take it we are using a kind of shorthand. We mean ‘pleasures snatched by unlawful acts.’ It is the stealing of the apple that is bad, not the sweetness. The sweetness is still a beam from the glory. That does not palliate the stealing. It makes it worse. There is sacrilege in the theft. We have abused a holy thing. I have tried, since that moment, to make every pleasure into a channel of adoration.”

C.S. Lewis Letters to Malcolm

“Yes, there are conferences on the scientific basis of humor, of fun (‘funology’ is the name given to this particular endeavour), but this is a difficult topic and progress is slow.”

Donald A. Norman Emotional Design