We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

The only limitation we have is the limitation of the mind

Life is not measured by its length but by its contents.

Death is more meaningful than just being dead.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

Fear makes you docile.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.