I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Love is always win-win.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I were but little happy could I say as much.

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.