I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

Spread sunshine and inspiration.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.