I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean uponinstead, build her wingsand point her to the skyand she will teach you both to fly.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.