I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.

If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.