"Leisure is a food, like sleep; liberty is a food, like sleep. Leisure is a matter of quality rather than quantity. Five minutes lasts longer when one cannot be disturbed than five hours when one maybe disturbed."

G.K. Chesterton "On Holidays", in New Witness May 21, 1914, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #7 (June/08)

"The two distinctive doctrines of Christianity are Original Sin and Salvation, the very bad news that no one else dares tell us and the very good news that no one else has a right to tell us."

Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained

"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."

G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton 

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."

MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006

"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011)