Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

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 single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.