When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Help yourself, then God will also help you!

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.