No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

A ‘biomass’ man lives by his instincts

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.