Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Man is nature as much as the trees.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.