Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

If we get too far ahead of ourselves we will fall over.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

I rob banks for a living. What do you do?

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.