I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

When I'm aggressive and physically feel pretty good, I'm hard to stop.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.