The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

Reality is the original Rorschach.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.