Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Sometimes souls are meant to meet and fleet for they have different contracts to complete.

The moment we understand life, we will begin to live.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.