Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Romeo LeBlanc

They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

C. S. Lewis

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Eric Liu

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Humphrey Bogart

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Robert Baden-Powell

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Nick Hornby