"We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away."

“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?”

“I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.”

“The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.”

“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

“Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.”

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

“Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.”

“I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”