'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.