Now that I am dead, I know everything.

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.

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

If I die, " he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Most loves don't last. But some do.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?