You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

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.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.