A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.