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

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.

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.

Jewish vampires: We turn into cats not bats bwaaahaha

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.