History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

We are what we frequently do.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.