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.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

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.

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

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.