Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

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.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

Here, there, every where

People feel alcohol heals heart (diseases) but in theory, it peels the heart.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.