It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.

"Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.