“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgement through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” - Richard Niebuhr, from The Kingdom of God in America, 1937, re: Protestant liberalism

“In order to write about life, first you must live it!” - Hemingway

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Dubois

"If 'science' is converted into ideology, a substitute for philosophy and religion, then rightly men of humane and social imagination will recoil from the fraud." - Russell Kirk

"By and large, the American Revolution was not an innovating upheaval, but a conservative restoration of colonial prerogatives. Accustomed from their beginnings to self-government, the colonials felt that by inheritance they possessed the rights of Englishmen and by prescription certain rights peculiar to themselves. When a designing king and a distant parliament presumed to extend over America powers of taxation and administration never before exercised, the colonies rose to vindicate their prescriptive freedom; and after the hour for compromise had slipped away, it was with reluctance and trepidation they declared their independence. Thus men essentially conservative found themselves triumphant rebels, and were compelled to reconcile their traditional ideas with the necessities of an independence hardly anticipated." - Russell Kirk, from The Conservative Mind

“[In] sound itself, there is a readiness to be ordered by the spirit and this is seen at its most sublime in music.” - Max Picard

"A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." – George Bernard Shaw

"Resentment is the emotion that nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past." ~ Jean Amery, holocaust survivor

"[Comedy's] whole function is to be a perpetual and funny, if disconcerting, reminder that it is the limited concrete which is the path to insight and salvation." - William F. Lynch