Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Would you care for something to drink?” “Is it poisoned?” “It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.