The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.