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

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.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

The planet is littered with irresponsible gods.

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.