The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Heartache wasn't my intention... love was.

Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment.

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.