Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

the hope of a better future belongs to us!

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

We move toward what we picture in our minds.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.