Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

He warmes too neere that burnes.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.