I'm very grateful for the people that I work with, because I don't get to choose them.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy.

People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

I'm not changed it’s just I grew up and you should try too.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

There are idiots. Look around.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.