"If at first you don’t succeed, somebody will point it out to you."

"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Ottawa Sun Oct. 4, 1999

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss."

Thomas Carlyle, Thomas

"Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest too... Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when Impatience companions her."

- John Ruskin, quoted in Samuel Smiles Self-Help

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