You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

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 seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

You are your choices.

The public is a bad guesser.