You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

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.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.