“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online

“the divine ludicrousness of creation… the sensus lusus which lies at the heart of matter.” Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb

“Cut the pizza in four pieces – I couldn’t eat six.” Yogi Berra, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001).

“Life. Consider the alternative.” Marshall McLuhan

“We shall never be rid of antiquity so long as we do not become barbarians again.” Jacob Burckhardt, Judgements on History and Historians

“It is with government, as with medicine. They have both but a choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty: And I repeat that government has but a choice of evils: In making this choice, what ought to be the object of the legislator? He ought to assure himself of two things; first, that in every case, the incidents which he tries to prevent are really evils; and secondly, that if evils, they are greater than those which he employs to prevent them.” Jeremy Bentham

“Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat,’ than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment.” C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man

“Man is nailed down – like Christ on the cross – to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out.” Vaclav Havel