Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

Kloo nodded at Lex in an indescribably maternal way, somehow cramming a lifetime of compassion, support, and tenderness all into one slight bounce of the head.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.