More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

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.

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

The crown of creation.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.