It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

My battle weapons in life are very simple

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

Why do the good die? That only happened once.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

Cherish all your happy moments.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.