“What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct?”

George Washington in George Washington: A Collection compiled and edited by W.B. Allen

“‘Each of us is interested in himself whether he wishes it or not, whether he thinks himself important or not, and for the simple reason that each of us is both the subject and the protagonist of his own nontransferable life.’”

José Ortega y Gasset in Man and Crisis, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign

“many people get down on themselves because they’re overweight. Their attitude about being overweight doesn’t change anything. Instead, they could embrace the fact that they’ve been successful in producing a result called excess fat and that now they’re going to produce a new result called being thin. They would produce this new result by producing new actions.”

Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

“’If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the Earth.”

“A.P. Herbert (1890-1971), English humorist and politician” quoted as “Thought du jour in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Oct. 10, 2011

“Many of the Righteous Gentiles were, along with those they were rescuing, captured and killed. Their names have been lost to history, but not to God.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things November 2003

“Don’t seek out the article ... I am assured that it is well worth the effort in avoiding!”

“A correspondent” quoted by a friend in an email

“There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be angry.”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“You would think men had sworn allegiance to crime!”

Jupiter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (specifically the 1st story “Lycaon” about a werewolf )