I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

Beate the dog before the Lyon.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

Celebrate for a nanosecond.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.