In my latest National Post column I say the debate on niqabs ultimately hinges on what human beings are, that they should have rights... or not.

"I don’t have a life, I have a life-style."

Dan Fielding on Night Court (I did not record the broadcast date)

"As we want a person to play for pleasure, we want him to think for pleasure."

G. K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 18 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2013) p. 44.

"Trying to understand the nature of man without recognizing him as the imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving of a lion."

J. Budziszewski in First Things June-July 2002

"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved."

Russell Lynes, in "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail July 26, 2001

"Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for bold action?"

Bruce Wayne in the original 1966 Batman movie

"It’s okay to say what you think as long as you have thought."

Brent Dyment (an "honourable mention" in a readers’ "Thought du Jour" contest in Globe and Mail Nov. 29 2002)

"Now there’s a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!"

Groucho Marx