When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

I drive an electric car.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.