Excluding citizens' voices from politics leads down a very bad path.

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.