“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”

Richard Bach, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)

“Three moves is as good as a fire, my grandmother used to say — paraphrasing Ben Franklin, I learned years later.”

J. Bottum in First Things December 2002

“I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy, and whose great attribute is Benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.”

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

“Doing common things so consciously they become spiritual even has a word for it in Japanese, sadou.”

Editorial in Globe & Mail October 6, 1999

“There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores.”

“Anonymous”, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 26, 2012

“Nearly all the most awful and abstruse statements can be put in words of one syllable, from ‘A child is born’ to ‘A soul is damned.’ If the ordinary man may not discuss existence, why should he be asked to conduct it?… Only the mass of men, for instance, have authority to say whether life is good. Whether life is good is an especially mystical and delicate question, and, like all such questions, is asked in words of one syllable. It is also answered in words of one syllable, and Bernard Shaw (as also mankind) answers ‘yes.’”

G.K. Chesterton, “Shaw, The Philosopher,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure: It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

Oscar Wilde quoted in Filip Palda The History of Tobacco Regulation: Forward to the Past

“It is impossible to insult a man who is not unsure of himself.”

Robert Heinlein quoted in Spider Robinson Time Travelers Strictly Cash