Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

The biggest threat to the regime is information.

You need, instead, to be defined by your values.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

We want a strong, growing economy

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'