I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. .

How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

More than we use is more than we want.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time. -Lord Dragnys.

Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.

Vote early and vote often.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.