If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

To all you men out there who want to use turning the other cheek as an excuse for your weakness... man up! Develop yourself to the point that you are powerful enough to face any conflict in your life head on and without trouble. Then, use your newfound confidence to avoid the conflict.

Call me old-fashioned, but it's always been my firm belief that a teacher's job should be for each of his or her students to finish the year with a grade of 100%.

If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.