"Yes-men are good for the ego but not for the soul. They have no effect on your thinking, and you can hardly expect them to impress your opponents."

David Gelernter in National Review March 9, 1998

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble."

Mrs. Mallowe in Rudyard Kipling, "A Second-Rate Woman" in Under the Deodars
 

"We do care far more about all sorts of things and people than is at all rational if this life is all…"

James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity

"A penny saved is a little piece of copper that stays in your pocket for 10 hours."

From a list of maxims in Globe and Mail Nov. 29, 2001 sent by Nicola Gilman’s Grade 3 class at Calgary Montessori School

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

G.K. Chesterton in "On Running After One’s Hat," in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

In my latest National Post column I say it's not reasonable to think the accelerating pace of technological and social change is remotely sustainable.

"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