Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.