"Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest too... Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when Impatience companions her."

- John Ruskin, quoted in Samuel Smiles Self-Help

"Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1983 Templeton Address re the disastrous history of Russia in the 20th century, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor

"the Baudelaires felt they were encountering some very large potatoes indeed."

Lemony Snicket The Vile Village (after explaining the meaning of the expression "small potatoes")

Next Saturday, Sept. 9, at 1:00, the Canadian Centre for Men and Families - Ottawa is having its Grand Opening. It's "Ottawa’s first health and social service hub uniquely dedicated to the unmet needs of boys, men, fathers and their families" and the event is at the centre, at 292 Montreal Road, Suite 302.

Whether or not you can make the Grand Opening, the Centre needs your support. I do hope to see you there.

In my latest National Post column I say the debate on niqabs ultimately hinges on what human beings are, that they should have rights... or not.

"I don’t have a life, I have a life-style."

Dan Fielding on Night Court (I did not record the broadcast date)

In my latest National Post column I say it's time to leave Afghanistan and keep our powder dry and our morale up for the next challenge.