All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

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.