“It used to be that your religion was, so to speak, part of the core curriculum of your life; now everything, including religion, is an elective.” Richard John Neuhaus in First Things October 2000

“They reached the kitchen, which had about half the number of floorboards required by popular prejudice.” Susan B. Kelly, Hope Against Hope

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” Theodore Rubin

“It is not only that what happens is inseparable from what people think happens; what people think about their collective or national past is inseparable from their thinking about their present. Their ideas about their history shapes their politics.”

John Lukacs At the End of an Age

“There is no reason in principle why Mises and Hayek, building on nineteenth-century thought, might not already have said most of what is important about the functioning of market economies. It may be that we are in an age of seriously diminishing returns.” Michael Prowse in National Review Feb. 24 1997

“What you get free costs too much.”

Jean Anouilh

“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.’

Rudyard Kipling”

“Religion might sometimes fail to right what was wrong; but it never descended to declaring that everything was right.”

G.K. Chesterton in Daily News February 25 1907