You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Say what you want about the deaf.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I am light and stardust in his hands.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

I'm working myself to death.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.