I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

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.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.