If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal

The company makes the feast.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.