I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

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.

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.

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

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.” “Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.