When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

'Old Tomorrow.'

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

Our distracted digital world is here to stay, so the question is more of how we can truly embrace the beauty that is the stillness and the silence.

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.