In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Herbie Hancock

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Amy Strum Alcott

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Leif Garrett

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

I don't follow politics much.

Vivienne Westwood

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Konrad von Gesner

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George Bush

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Edward Fredkin's Paradox

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

I love heels... whoever created heels is amazing!

Katie Cassidy