"A New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and out the next." A Nony Mous. "The proper exercise of gifts and talents changes us from within, serving either to build or to diminish our character." Louis Markos "Our Share of Glory" in Touchstone, November 2006. "I continue to break the rules here.  I'm medicine-free, 91, and have no plans for retirement." Fr. Bernardine Hahn, OFM Living and working in St. Louis, Missouri.  Christmas 2006 Letter. "Being scoffed at by feminists seems like a rather paltry accomplishment, sort of like fording a river that turns out to be a few inches deep all the way across." Gary Hardaway "Feminist Stampede" in Touchstone, November 2006. "He did his duty as a leader, not as a performer." Henry Kissinger About Former President Gerald Ford, January 2nd, 2007. "There are few things, if anything, so clearly required by social justice than that a society not kill its babies." Richard John Neuhaus "The Public Square" in First Things, December 2006. "Compromise is going a little below what your conscience says is right." Overheard on EWTN December 2006 "It is frequently the case that bigots are more vocal in talking about bigotry." Richard John Neuhaus "The Public Square" in First Things, December 2006. "The object of a New Year is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards." G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)