Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

That’s the thing about living on the earth – we humans can make all sorts of decisions and plans, but at the end of the day, the earth always gets the last word.

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.