“A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.”

“Gilbert!’s Top Dozen Very Bad Puns” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #8 (July/August 2002)

“Descartes once joked about common sense that it must be universal, because he had yet to meet anyone who didn’t claim to have it.”

Michael Potemra in National Review Jan. 27, 2003 (I believe he was referring to the opening line of Discours de la Méthode: “Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée: car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n’ont point coutume d’en désirer plus qu’ils en ont.”)

My latest Loonie Politics column contrasts the justified praise of George Bush Sr.’s character when he passed away with the abuse heaped on him when he held office.

“pessimism is as likely to mislead a contemporary critic as optimism.”

Author’s 1914 Introduction to Albert Venn Dicey The Law of the Constitution

“Wealth as a whole consists in using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity - that is, the use - of property that constitutes wealth.”

Aristotle Rhetoric Book I

In my latest National Post column I say the idea of a government cartel to reduce oil production in Alberta is at least as bad as it sounds.

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”

Lao-Tsu in the “Tao Teh King” [sic] quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power