I've been called worse things by better people.

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.

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.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

Is it OK to say, "these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life"?

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.