My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time.

Dwell purely on positive thoughts.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.