If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Dita Von Teese

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

David Fasold

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Quintilian

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday.

Stephen McCranie

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Robert Walser

Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

Mstislav Rostropovich

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Lawrence Durrell

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.