Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Books are the reality you get to choose

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

I have a dog at home, and that's my baby. She's my girl, and I would do absolutely anything for her. She's like a child to me.

Football's not a bastion for toughness. It's not a bastion of anything uplifting or good for men or anybody else.