The world loves a peaceful man, but it gives way to a strenuous kicker.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

I think women can save civilization.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

I mostly built stuff that I liked.

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.