"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
"True character is like film, it develops in the dark."
Michael "Pinball" Clemons quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 18, 2004
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Helen Keller, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2005
"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."
G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)
"Hagar: 'Never judge another man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes!' Lucky Eddie: 'But before you do, make sure he doesn’t have athlete’s foot!'"
Hagar the Horrible in Ottawa Citizen March 23, 2004
"A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things."
Thomas Carlyle
"To Keynes’s famous dictum - 'in the long run we are all dead' - the historian is committed by profession flatly to reply ‘Nonsense! the long run is with us, a powerful active force every day of our lives."
Walt Rostow The Process of Economic Growth
"Complexity is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
John Gross of the New York Times, quoted by John O'Sullivan in National Review December 25, 1995 (with specific reference to inherent tendency of bad theories to be complex)