“If there were no death, there would probably be no religion. As long as there is death, there will be religion – unless our pop psychologists can make us all insane enough to ‘accept death’ calmly and blandly as something natural, as our friend, as ‘a stage of growth’. That’s like telling a quadriplegic that paralysis is a stage of exercise, or a divorcé that divorce is a stage of marriage. It’s the kind of joke only a moron or a sadist would tell.”

Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained

“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained.”

Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrunts quoted by George F. Will in National Post August 24, 2002

In my latest Loonie Politics column I express amazement that people are expressing amazement that migrants are flooding toward the U.S. border after the Democrats won with a shrill anti-border-control message.

“‘If what you have seems to you insufficient,’ said one of Rome's greatest philosophers, Seneca, ‘then you will be miserable even if you possess the world.’ And let’s remember this: even if we owned the entire United States with a hog-tight fence around it, we could eat only three meals a day and sleep in only one bed at a time.”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (yes, again - it was full of great quotations)

“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”

Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die

In my latest National Post column I say the Kielburgers may be right about Trudeau, but they have a long way to go on themselves.

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

In my latest Epoch Times column I say calling for Canada to become a republic because of Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview, or for any other reason, misses the point that it already is one.