“Life is too short to be little.”

Disraeli, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Silence is safer than speech.”

Epictetus, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen Oct. 24, 2002

“If there were no death, there would probably be no religion. As long as there is death, there will be religion – unless our pop psychologists can make us all insane enough to ‘accept death’ calmly and blandly as something natural, as our friend, as ‘a stage of growth’. That’s like telling a quadriplegic that paralysis is a stage of exercise, or a divorcé that divorce is a stage of marriage. It’s the kind of joke only a moron or a sadist would tell.”

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

“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained.”

Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrunts quoted by George F. Will in National Post August 24, 2002

“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”

Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

“You are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”

Norman Vincent Peale, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.”

Kaspar Gutman, “the Fat Man”, in The Maltese Falcon