“The master said, ‘In antiquity men were loath to speak. This is because they counted it shameful if their person failed to keep up with their words’”

Confucius The Analects IV.22

“You can critique marriage. Fine. But what game are you going to play? Try coming up with one on your own. Maybe you can. Maybe you’re like avant-garde Picasso, maybe you are, and maybe you have a right to make your own arrangement. Maybe you have the psychological fortitude to craft your own social institution, but I bloody well wouldn’t count on it. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as a job, or better yet, a career. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as friendship, as marriage, all of these social institutions. And when you criticize them, Nietzsche put it as one question of conscience, and I think it’s in Twilight of the Idols: Whether you’re a leader, or whether you’re running away, you’re outside the pack and moving in a different direction. In either case, you know, are you a rebel because you can’t fit in? Or are you a rebel because you could fit in, but you see a better way? People in that category are not that common. And the first question of conscience should be, well, ‘Which of those two are you?’ It’s highly probable that you’re the first one, and not the second, because that would mean that you would be intensely disciplined, plus creative on that dimension. Maybe that is you, and God, then we need you. You know, like, you’re an avatar of the savior under those circumstances, and maybe everyone has some of that in them.”

Jordan Peterson in a video clip from “The JBP Show” on Instagram January 18, 2022

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

Elbert Hubbard, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email January 26, 20/22

“In all my life I have met only one person who claims to have seen a ghost. And the interesting thing about the story is that the person disbelieved in the immortal soul before she saw the ghost and still disbelieves after seeing it.”

Start of C.S. Lewis Miracles

“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.”

“On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family,” in G.K. Chesterton Brave New Family

“I am unbelievably lucky: a. to be an American; b. To have my wife, the world’s finest human; c. To have never been severely or at least life-threateningly ill; d. To have never been in combat; e. To have had loving, caring, prosperous parents; f. To have an interesting, well-paid career; g. To have great friends, a great sister, nephew, niece, cousins, and, above all, son; h. Above all, to have learned to love and worship a God of love and understanding.”

“Benjamin J. Stein’s Diary” on his 60th birthday in The American Spectator February 2005

“There is bad religion, just as there is bad cooking, bad art or bad sex...”

Karen Armstrong in the Ottawa Citizen “Citizen’s Weekly” May 12, 2002.

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”

“Says a passage in the Talmud” according to Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties