"You could have the most beautiful race car in the world, but if you try to run it on beer, it’s not going to work." Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power

"Without religious convictions, we would be so many Cains…" Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence

"’What about a train ride?’ I’d asked the [Intourist] clerk. ‘Is the Trans-Siberian Railroad any fun?’ She stared at me. ‘It will be long remembered,’ she said." P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich

"Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name." Samuel Butler Erewhon

"It is lack of confidence more than anything else that kills civilization." Sir Kenneth Clark, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail February 6, 2007

"There are some people who say that they want Socialism, but do not want bureaucracy. Such persons I leave in simple despair. How any calculating creature can think that we can extend the number of Government offices without extending the number of Government officials and the prevalence of the official mind, I cannot even conjecture. Some people look forward to a splendid transformation of the general human soul. That is a good argument for accepting Socialism – and, when one comes to think of it, an even better reason for doing without it." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News January 2, 1909, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." Oliver Goldsmith, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail September 27 2000

"Doubt comes at the window, when inquiry is denied at the door." Benjamin Jowett