"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."

"Like the very young, she knew a little bit about a lot of things and a whole lot about nothing."

"The only reason there isn't life on other planets is because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

"'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."

"Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships."

"Young in limbs, in judgement old."

"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."

"The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high."

"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."