"Step 1. Get committed…. Step 2. Involve your spouse…. Step 3. Act as if the depression has already begun…. Step 4. Gather knowledge…. Step 5. Master compound interest…. Step 6. Stop shopping…. Step 7. Turn off the television…. Step 8. Connect more closely to family and neighbors…. Step 9. Do not be a victim…. Step 10. Watch the calendar, not the clock…. Step 11. Treasure your health…. Step 12. Don’t boast…. Step 13. Help others…. Step 14. Defend the open society…. Step 15. Tell your children."

Advice on being prepared for the long run and possible hard times, in James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg The Great Reckoning

"it is only by eternal institutions like hair that we can test passing institutions like empires. If a house is so built as to knock a man's head off when he enters it, it is built wrong.:

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World p. 193.

"When walking through your neighbour's melon-patch, don't tie your shoe"

Chinese proverb according to David Crystal in As They Say in Zanzibar quoted in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail December 18, 2006

"Chesterton begins his essay ["The Philosophy of Gratitude"] by recounting a passage from a letter he received in response to one of his essays. The writer wanted to know the meaning of the following sentence that he had read in Chesterton: 'No one can be miserable who has noticed anything worth being miserable about.' Chesterton tells us that he wrote this sentence in 'a wild moment.' But it was still true, whatever its wildness. If I notice that I am miserable, then I must have some sense of what it means to be not miserable. My condition, in other words, is not exclusively locked into misery."

James V. Schall SJ in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 13 # 8 (July-August 2010)

"Winston Churchill once described the Balkans as a region that produced more history than it could consume."

Carol Off The Ghosts of Medak Pocket

"I remember that when I was a boy my teacher asked if anybody knew what laissez faire meant. I didn’t realize it was a French phrase. I thought it meant the government was 'lazy' and 'fair.' And it certainly worked well for Hong Kong under British rule."

Martin Lee in CATO Policy Report Vol. XXI, #6 (Nov./Dec. 1999)

"As long as your players know, deep down, that you are trying to make them as good as they can be, then you can use just about anything [for motivation]. Even a disappearing act. Once, in 1978, we were losing to Notre Dame at halftime. Here was my halftime speech: 'Gentlemen, it’s one thing to be beaten. It’s another to be embarrassed.' And I walked out. We won, 28-14."

Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom BO 

"Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même."

Réflexions morales #166 in François de La Rochefoucauld Maximes