There is no fool like an educated fool.

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.

All government wars are unjust.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.