"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”

Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000

"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."

George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us

In my latest National Post column I choke on "raw water".

"True character is like film, it develops in the dark."

Michael "Pinball" Clemons quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 18, 2004

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

Helen Keller, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2005

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."

G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)

"Hagar: 'Never judge another man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes!' Lucky Eddie: 'But before you do, make sure he doesn’t have athlete’s foot!'"

Hagar the Horrible in Ottawa Citizen March 23, 2004