"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 8, 2007

"Modern conditions are treated as fixed, though the very word 'modern' implies that they are fugitive. Old Ideas are treated as impossible, though their very antiquity often proves their permanence."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)

"the real difference between man and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state."

Aristotle, The Politics p. 60

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail August 31, 2005

"Okay, enough blue-skying; let’s grey-sky it a bit."

Ric Dolphin in Western Standard June 28, 2004

"What’s the point of being a hedonist if you’re not having a good time?"

Lily Tomlin, Search for Signs of Intelligent Life, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991

"He has summer teeth... you know, some are yellow, some are brown, some are missing"

The announcer on a WWE program on TV (I swear it came on while I was on the phone and I heard this before I could grab the remote and change the channel; I have no idea what date except WWE was still WWF then... but you have to admit it's funny)

"We should always endeavour to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth."

G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle and the Wild Ducks, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani Chesterton University Student Handbook.