Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.