Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

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.

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment in order to see your dream fulfilled.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Words are for those with promises to keep.