"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784”
 

"If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at Harvard in 1978

"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.