The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

I like to spend time with my family - that's the most important thing in my life.