"Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heroes. They don’t usually mean to be, but that’s their problem, not ours."

P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich p. 245.

In my latest National Post column I ridicule our governments' conviction that legalizing marijuana is yet another opportunity to overtax and overregulate us instead of just leaving us alone.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose

"Learn your lines and don’t trip over the furniture."

Spencer Tracy's advice to young actors, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go

"If there were anywhere on earth a resting place other than God, we may be very sure that the human soul in its long history would have found it before this."

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, quoted in National Review June 12, 1995

"I’m suitably impressed."

From my file of hidden insults, from a friend’s neighbour
 

"If a man wants to worship the Life Force merely because it is a Force, he may very naturally worship it in the electric battery. I am tempted to say it will serve him right if he eventually worships the life force in the electric chair."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)