I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

My time is now.

Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Let your eyes be the camera and your imagination be the set.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.