The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Hell is truth known too late.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.

Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.