I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Even when someone hurts you, find the strength to forgive them, understand them, and let it go.

I like to live in 'fear'becauSe, you are ready to faceany unexpected thing to become and you have 'no regret' for it.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

I love going to work.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.