"I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest."

"I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully."

"There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."

"I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot."

"I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals."

"People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause."