These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

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.

God’s blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.