He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

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.

Your boast does not take you in any place, But your love, YES.

On the way, see the beauty, find the love, and express the kindness.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.