There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Love is always more than friendship.

Why the hell do women always have to bring back up? It's not as if I'm going to molest her at the opera.

The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.