One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

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.

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

I taught her to fly, and she began to soar.

Sow the seeds of love, kindness and peace.

When people have been oppressed for so long

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.