I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

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.

People who fall in love can fall out of it.

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

I don't understand water and gravity.

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.