Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

My time is now.

I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option.

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

I don't have an attitude, I have standards for the people who are supposed to be my friends.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.