Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.