We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

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.

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.

I’m planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place.

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.