I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

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

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.