The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.