"There’s no such thing as a bad day when there’s a doorknob on the inside of the door".

Paul Galanti, former Navy Commander and Vietnam War POW, quoted in National Post March 24, 2003

"To suppose that this universe came into existence, with you and me in it, in order that we might, in Shakespeare’s felicitous phrase, 'grind out our appetites', is not only to demean life, but to make it farcical as well."

Malcolm Muggeridge, "Address, 1970" in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

"They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the stair-case and was viscid under the foot like organic matter."

O. Henry in “The Furnished Room”

An excellent Mercatornet piece by Margaret Harper McCarthy on how religious freedom must mean far more than the right to indulge certain opinions in private, reprinted from Humanum Review.

In my latest National Post column I say the proliferation of political "fake news" is party due to a proliferation of fake news everywhere. 

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 8, 2007

Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA, aka EFN-USA, have also posted a positive review and helpful links to The Environment: A True Story. I really appreciate everyone who's helping make people aware of the documentary because the topic is so important and the time is ripe for a challenge to the conventional wisdom.