Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

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.

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

You have to give credit where credit is due.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.