In my latest National Post column I say it’s fatuous to ask companies to stay out of politics; what they need to do, being collections of people, is seek to act morally in public as in private affairs.

“IF YOUR MIND GOES BLANK, DON’T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE SOUND!”

“Sign Language: Seen on church billboards from coast to coast” submitted by Monica Popp, Edmonton in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition May 2005

“The trouble with many travellers is that they take themselves along.”

Joseph Prescott, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 26, 2005

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”

Heraclitus, quoted without further attribution in email from the Epoch Times Nov. 20, 2020

“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