The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

If there is moral insanity, " he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.