A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.