"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

"The mark of a great historical event is that it changes people or, more precisely, the way they think, so that they are never quite the same again." John Kenneth Galbraith, The Liberal Hour

"what Milton Friedman called TANSTAAFL – 'There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.'" William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy

"Sam Spade: Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this. Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk." The Maltese Falcon

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." G.K. Chesterton in his Autobiography, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani Chesterton University Student Handbook

"And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger." Luke 2:16

"anyone who, walking through the streets at night, hears the bells begin suddenly to laugh and thunder upon Christmas Eve will find it difficult to persuade himself that something of thrilling import to humanity has not at that moment occurred." G.K. Chesterton, "Christmas Day," reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)

"It is true that I do believe in fairy tales; in the sense that I marvel so much at what does exist that I am readier to admit what might." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #4 (January-February 2006)