When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

God is King of kings.

No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.