“‘I’m never an optimist, but I’m always hopeful.’”

Tom Flanagan in British Columbia Report May 27, 2002 (specifically regarding the then-current Canadian political scene but I commend this attitude in almost all situations)

"There is an alliance between religion and real fun, of which the modern thinkers have never got the key.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Jan. 11, 1908, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (Dec. 2002)

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

Will Durant, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html

“history teaches, as no other subject can, the sad fact that acts have consequences.”

Robin Neillands, The Wars of the Roses

"He's human all right. He's got to be. No other critter on earth would make such a fool of himself."

Bull Harris (about Sherrif J.P. Harrah) in El Dorado

“Possunt quia posse videntur” [“They can who think they can” or “They can because they believe they can.”]

Virgil, quoted by Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Simplicity is not so simple as it looks.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Return of the Gods” in The Resurrection of Rome quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6