When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.