I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

Credit is a young man's capital.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!