Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

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.

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.

Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time. -Jordan

You're too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.

She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.