As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.