I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

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.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Yes, darling, let me cover your face with kisses-On second thought, just let me cover your face

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.