"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom."

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada."

"A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it."