“Now there’s a guy who lost the human race.”

My own thought April 2 2004 on abject failure (not any specific instance of it, just the general concept)

In my latest National Post column I say we need to weigh the real dangers from the pandemic against the real and rapidly growing dangers from the lockdown.

“Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.”

The 3 keys to pitching, according to the announcers on Toronto Blue Jays’ game September 5, 1995

“‘Of course there might be a God. I just don’t know.’ You are either living as though He did, or living as though He didn’t. If you don’t know anything at all, then how did you choose?/ The psalmist famously wrote, ‘The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’’ Did he call the man a fool for not knowing God is real? Or for knowing God is real, but pretending to himself that he didn’t?/ Few people lose belief in God, and then do wrong. The more often traveled path is to do wrong, excuse it, then look for reasons to disbelieve in God.”

J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019.

“Concerning aesthetic values, I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain, and hear the laugh of a child.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

“Misfortune is a point of view. Your headache may feel good to an aspirin salesman.”

Tony Robbins Unlimited Power

“‘I’m not saying there is no God. I’m just not religious.’ How curious that the Lord of the Universe might exist, yet not be important enough to think about.”

J. Budziszewski “Underground Thomist” email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019