The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

What matters is the living have breath!

Cleanliness begins with love for godliness

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.