Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

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.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

Sometimes losing is winning

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow.

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.