The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

Beckham was a great inspiration to me growing up.

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She’s just so amazing.

I’m also alternative because of Canada – there’s something romantic about being Canadian. We’re a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I’m Canadian.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat.

Authentic men aren’t afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they’re sad, admit it when they’re wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.