An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.