“In his new memoirs, Decision Points, George W. Bush...  tells of one summer job on a cattle ranch in which the foreman derided those who were ‘Book smart, sidewalk stupid.’"

William Watson in Ottawa Citizen December 7, 2010

"Perhaps, like me, the reader is sufficiently antique to recall a time when genius was normally reserved for that rare soul who, in Dr. Johnson’s phrase, ‘can do readily what no one else can do at all’..."

A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine Jan. 1988

"Nobody, on their deathbeds, says, 'My biggest regret is eating ice cream.' Life is too short spending it all thinking about how to live longer."

Dr. Steven Bratman, "author of Health Food Junkies/Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession With Healthful Eating", quoted in Globe & Mail October 16, 2001

"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."

Francis Bacon

“Someone once defined a great man as one who never reminds us of someone else.”

A narrator whose name I did not record in a segment on Dick Butkus in a film on NFL greats broadcast on Channel 3 in Ottawa on August 22, 1995

"Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."

Nigel Dennis, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Jan. 19, 2006

"The most important sort of knowledge is to know which things are worth knowing."

G.K. Chesterton in Sign April 1932, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #2-3 (Nov.-Dec. .2013)

“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

D.P. Diffiné, “Wal-Mart Open for Business: A 30th Anniversary Salute to Wal-Mart” (1992)