I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.