I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. Bus monsters are people too.

Dreamers have a territorial seed in them that give them the power to possess, to dominate and to influence the world.

Let me have you in the most intimate ofways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man may touch.Make me yours forever.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.