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

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.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

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

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...