“I am not certain that brevity is the soul of wit, but brevity is an excellent substitute for wit.”

G.K. Chesterton in New York Times April 10, 1921, quoted in Gilbert! magazine vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)

“I want to go; God take me.”

Dwight Eisenhower to his sons John and David and his wife Mamie at his bedside in a "Famous Last Words" calendar I had in 2003

“tourist: the sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion.”

G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review January-March 1925, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)

“Life is too short to be little.”

Disraeli, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Silence is safer than speech.”

Epictetus, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen Oct. 24, 2002

“If there were no death, there would probably be no religion. As long as there is death, there will be religion – unless our pop psychologists can make us all insane enough to ‘accept death’ calmly and blandly as something natural, as our friend, as ‘a stage of growth’. That’s like telling a quadriplegic that paralysis is a stage of exercise, or a divorcé that divorce is a stage of marriage. It’s the kind of joke only a moron or a sadist would tell.”

Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

“You are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”

Norman Vincent Peale, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living