Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.