The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.