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

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

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.

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

I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.