All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

Shattered, broken and still can fight for what I believe in and make my dreams come true I won't give up never

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!