"Doubt comes at the window, when inquiry is denied at the door." Benjamin Jowett

"Man must bow down to something." Fyodor Dostoevsky, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour." Truman Capote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe & Mail December 14, 2007

"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.

"Generally speaking (there are beautiful exceptions), generally speaking, if a man acts, but does not talk, it is because the action he is performing will not bear talking about." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 2, 1907, quoted in Gilbert! Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)

"Nothing fails like success" Dean Inge

"That’s the key to comedy; allowing yourself to look stupid." Megan Mullally in Ladies’ Home Journal

"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory." F.W. Faber