There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Authentic leadership is leadership that endures, because it exists as a function of the individual rather than a crowd of borrowed opinions.

The boy who walks in the light

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.