I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on either side.

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?