I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

What I did, anybody can do.