"Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have." Doris Mortman
"As long as history is regarded as ‘philosophy teaching by examples’ drawn from real life, this tendency to write up the virtues of past ages will persist. So long also will classical scholars be tempted to seek to enhance the value of their subject by dwelling with enthusiasm upon the moral worth of the Romans." F.R. Cowell, Cicero and the Roman Republic
"As someone once said, the price of sheltering people from their own folly is to fill the world with fools." Link Byfield in British Columbia Report June 10, 1996
"Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality..." Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" T.S. Eliot, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail January 31, 2012
"If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 20, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #6 (April-May 2008)
"as messed up as a soup sandwich." Al LaPointe in a letter to the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal July 14, 2004
"what people enjoy is not the sense of being in control, but the sense of exercising control in difficult situations. It is not possible to experience a feeling of control unless one is willing to give up the safety of protective routines. Only when a doubtful outcome is at stake, and one is willing to influence that outcome, can a person really know whether she is in control." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow