Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

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.

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 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.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

Christmas, so joyfully celebrated within our hearts and within the hearts of countless others.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.