"If at first you don’t succeed, somebody will point it out to you."

"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Ottawa Sun Oct. 4, 1999

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss."

Thomas Carlyle, Thomas

"No theory, no history."

Werner Sombart, quoted in Theodore Von Laue The World Revolution of Westernization

"Those who talk of 'tolerating all opinions' are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 24, 1912, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

"The first impression that one gets of a ruler and of his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him."

Machiavelli, quoted in Dan Rather The Palace Guard

"Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest too... Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when Impatience companions her."

- John Ruskin, quoted in Samuel Smiles Self-Help

"Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1983 Templeton Address re the disastrous history of Russia in the 20th century, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor

"I don’t have a life, I have a life-style."

Dan Fielding on Night Court (I did not record the broadcast date)