In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

I expected you to look... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly?

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.