To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

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.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

I love money because I've earned it.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.