I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

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.

If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Ordinary men with extraordinary powerCommon men with uncommon resultsUsual men with unusual anointingUnschooled mortal men with immortal visionWeak men with mighty deeds-Insight for Fruitful Living

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

in nonsense is strength

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.