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

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

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.

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.