In my latest National Post column I take on the concept that a new phone, or new anything, can revolutionize our lives every few years.

"[T]he only thing in life which is interesting is truth, and the only thing in life which is admirable is goodness."

Malcolm Muggeridge "About Kingsmill" in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

"That old saying – 'You're as happy as your saddest child' - anybody who has been a parent understands that."

Then-U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins quoted by Donna Jacobs in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 3 2005

"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