It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Play every game as if it's your last one

No, " I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

I don't feel the need to prove myself to others, but to prove myself to myself

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

I believe in telling the truth.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.