"So far as I am able to discern, there are only two kinds of strong-willed people: saints and psychopaths. According to the ancient understanding, the former have made a pact with God, the latter with the Devil. The modern understanding is, nature and/or nurture on both sides. As ever, the ancient understanding is correct."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 3, 2009
"Do unto others as they would like to be done unto"
Attributed to "various U.S. management consultants” in Globe and Mail March 10, 2000 p. A18.
"the telescope through which we can see the star upon which we dwell."
G.K. Chesterton defining religion, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #1 (Sept. 2004)
"I would rather lick fire ants off a stick..."
Blogger Dale Franks of QandO.net re a now forgotten piece of political maneuvering, quoted by John Fund in The American Spectator March 2006
"Pain is not suffering"
Slogan on a Nike ad featuring Olympian triathlete Simon Whitfield in Globe and Mail August 27, 2008
"‘The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.'"
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in "Serenity in Storms” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us
"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill"
The moral of his The Second World War according to Winston Churchill
"Step 1. Get committed…. Step 2. Involve your spouse…. Step 3. Act as if the depression has already begun…. Step 4. Gather knowledge…. Step 5. Master compound interest…. Step 6. Stop shopping…. Step 7. Turn off the television…. Step 8. Connect more closely to family and neighbors…. Step 9. Do not be a victim…. Step 10. Watch the calendar, not the clock…. Step 11. Treasure your health…. Step 12. Don’t boast…. Step 13. Help others…. Step 14. Defend the open society…. Step 15. Tell your children."
Advice on being prepared for the long run and possible hard times, in James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg The Great Reckoning