“You fail to overlook the crucial point.”

Samuel Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #2 Oct.-Nov. 2002

“Common sense, that extinct branch of psychology.”

G.K. Chesterton “The Unpsychological Age” in Alvaro De Silva ed., Brave New Family

“This capacity to be fully engaged in the moment yet simultaneously aware of its historic or cultural context was a special trait…”

Electra Slonimsky Yourke’s “Foreword” in Nicolas Slonimsky Perfect Pitch

“The greatest of all Chesterton’s gifts was his charity, and he carried it to a very high point; for he suffered fools gladly."

Fulton J. Sheed in “G.K. Chesterton,” in Sidelights on the Catholic Revival, quoted by James V. Schall in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2003)

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

Harry F. Banks (emailed by a friend)

“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy

“’Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 31, 1921 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)