[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Some increase happens within us and are not seen by the outside world

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Thank God for your mother.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.