You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

For I am you and you are I.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.