The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

I can´t get out of the box, while keeping God in the box.

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.