Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

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.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Love is the most common miracle.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I'm searching for a real love.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.