Their Quotes

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.