I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work

I'm at a point in my life where I very much want to continue to work on public policy, on measures that we can adopt to improve life for all the citizens in the province. But I'm also at a point in my life where I want to do that without the demands of being in politics.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.