I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.