The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

Follow your heart and your mind will create.