"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg – not by smashing it."

Arnold Glasgow, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail Sept. 29, 1999

“Pascal’s favourite philosopher, St. Augustine, put it this way in the most famous Christian line outside Scripture: ‘Thou hast made us for Thyself, and (therefore) our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee’ (Confessions I, i, 2). A shark cannot stop swimming and hunting and eating. It is a perpetual motion machine. If its proper food is not available, it will eat anything, even empty metal containers. St. Thomas says: ‘Man cannot live without joy. That is why it is necessary that a man deprived of spiritual joys goes over into carnal pleasures.’”

Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained

“Any small victory in a storm...”

Announcer on ABC Monday Night Football Oct. 17 1988

“You’re never too old to become younger.”

Mae West, quoted on www.goodreads.com

“Above all, we must insist, as against the utopian concepts, that a tolerable order of things is one of a proper balance between the social and the individual: that a human being is neither an ant nor a shark.”

Introduction in Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century

“The progressive person comes by, saying gaily, ‘Why confine your soaring soul within the mere formularies of currants, suet, and eggs? Take anything, anything that this varied Cosmos has evolved. Every brick in the street is a potential pudding. Poisons are but a blundering search after pudding. Make your universal Christmas pudding out of materials as universal as the spirit of Christmas. Make it of glue, soot, potato peelings, blacking, hog’s-wash, rags, bones, rubbish, Spiritual Healers, Hygienic Marriages, Eastern Pessimism, flying teacups, Prussian Atheists, and Nut Sausages – and your Christmas pudding will be Larger, Broader, and more Mystic.’ To which I reply, ‘All right, so long as it tastes like Christmas pudding.’ But it doesn’t.”

G.K. Chesterton “A Progressive Yule to You, Too” from Illustrated London News Jan. 1, 1910, reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #3 (Dec. 2006)

“At Christmas I see myself as I really am. And as I could be, if I weren’t such a stinker. As the whole sick, weary, unhappy world sees itself as it might be, if it weren’t such a stinker. Noel! Joy! Peace awaits. Killings, brutality, meanness is here. Cry world.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

“‘The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.’ – Franklin P. Jones”

NCC Overview Winter 2002 [they had "nobody is there" but I believe this version is correct]