Canada was built on dead beavers.

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.

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.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Girls. You never know what they're going to think.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.