My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

When sadness knows the reason of tears, heart prepares to carry the ache for years

When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

I know all the critics.

I see all of them. All the colors.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?