The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

We can always begin again.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me.