Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Yes, but knee pants are so much more flattering. You can see my legs." You want people to see your legs?" I have very nice legs!" We both paused to admire them for a moment.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.