We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.