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 do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

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

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.