What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one.

If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

The poetry of country music will survive.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?