It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

For thy love, I feel ineffable joy.

If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

If it were legal, I'd marry food.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.