The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

If love is the music of the heart, then philosophy should be the music of the mind.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Architecture is invention.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.