"It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'"

“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”

“You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.”

Source : "‘Firefly’: Summer Glau reflects on Joss Whedon, sci-fi women and River’s edge". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 3, 2011.

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (1996). “Beauty and Sadness”, Vintage Books

“Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men.”

“Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.”

Source : "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.

“There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.”

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”