“That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.”

Davy Crockett (John Wayne) in The Alamo (according to en.wikiquote.org)

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it."

Emerson Pugh, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com

“The sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in an editorial in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008).

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg – not by smashing it."

Arnold Glasgow, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail Sept. 29, 1999

“You’re never too old to become younger.”

Mae West, quoted on www.goodreads.com

“At Christmas I see myself as I really am. And as I could be, if I weren’t such a stinker. As the whole sick, weary, unhappy world sees itself as it might be, if it weren’t such a stinker. Noel! Joy! Peace awaits. Killings, brutality, meanness is here. Cry world.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

“‘The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.’ – Franklin P. Jones”

NCC Overview Winter 2002 [they had "nobody is there" but I believe this version is correct]

"real eating will restore his sense of the festivity of being. Food does not exist merely for the sake of its nutritional value. To see it so is only to knuckle under still further to the desubstantialization of man, to regard not what things are, but what they mean to us… A man’s daily meal ought to be an exultation over the smack of desirability which lies at the roots of creation.”

Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb